Jay Craven

The movie tells the true story of a black minister in a small Vermont town. Things go completely wrong for the minister when he becomes accused of the murder of a young woman to whom he had given shelter.

The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Legendary Yankee log-driver, Noel Lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy ... but then, he'd never met Noel Lord.