Fallen Land

Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations; inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now; the farm has been carved up; the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives and societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik; a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia and Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son; Copley; and buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision and settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land; and simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness; Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse; and as reality shifts; and the edges of what is right and wrong blur and are lost; Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them.