Emily Crabtree
1849년, 기독교 교리를 따르는 캘리포니아 변두리 마을에 정착한 ‘패트릭’은 성실한 장의사 겸 목수로 주민들에게 신임을 얻고 있다. 평화롭던 어느 날, 무법자 ‘더치 알버트’가 마을에 술집을 열어 도박과 매춘을 일삼으며 매일 밤 피바람을 일으키기 시작한다. 시체가 쌓여갈수록 ‘패트릭’의 돈벌이는 늘어가지만 이웃들의 의심과 ‘알버트’ 무리의 압박이 심해지고, ‘패트릭’은 되돌릴 수 없는 파국으로 치닫게 된다.
Cindy
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.
Dorothy
Paul is a chubby kind-‐hearted amateur detective. Dorothy is an intense upper class teenager. Paul is into quoting Sherlock Holmes and watching Derrick. Dorothy is into punk clothing and hating her mother. Paul is forty three, Dorothy is sixteen, and the only thing that links them is Paul’s knowledge that he is Dorothy’s biological father… over time, this has grown into a one way relationship with Paul spying on Dorothy as she grew up, always from a safe distance…They would never have met if Dorothy hadn’t heard of Paul’s amateur detective skills. She wants to use him to find her father…
