The Hemp House

'I didn’t want to press the shutter and take the picture. But I did'

Jude Baxendale is trying her best to simply live her life – stay in touch with her son at college, take assignments from the paper, survive the small town life of Ravensbridge. But the paper is suffering; cutbacks mean their team of three will become a team of one. Faced with the prospect of fighting for her job, Jude heads out to grab some photos of the latest town incident – there’s a freerunner running loose in the middle of town. When the runner jumps from the roof of the local theater and dies, it sends her into a tailspin – why would he do that?

As she pokes around the theatre to see if there are any connections, she starts uncovering dark, sordid histories of some of the actprs. When another member of the theatre turns up dead in the hemp house of the theatre, Jude knows that this isn’t a coincidence. As she digs deeper, her life and the life of her loved ones are thrown into jeopardy by those who want the past to stay buried.