Gospel Hill

OPIS

In the wake of his fathers death, John Malcom, has drifted into seclusion, turning his back on the movement. Meanwhile, his wife Sarah (Bassett), has continued to fight for what is right. Battling the local doctor (Esposito), who is spearheading a movement to displace much of the town’s African American community to make way for a large development. The man who was sheriff at the time
of the assassination, Jack Herrod, has remained in town too although not as sheriff. He has fallen onto hard times and ill health. His two sons have stayed as well trying to eke out livings. The younger as a landscaper, Joel, working primarily for the doctor and the older, Carl (Adam Baldwin), as an iconoclastic lawyer, who is having an affair with the doctors’ wife.When a young school teacher, Rosie (Julia Stiles), moves to town she not only begins dating Joel, but also joins Sarah Malcom in fighting the development. This sets in motion events that will draw all the parties together and make them face to face with the ghosts of their past...