A west-coast college professor retires to rural Kentucky and becomes entangled in an escalating conflict with a lone hermit living off-the-grid in the woods behind his home.
This is the story of a town so small that everybody knows everybody, folks with simple dreams and hangnail hope and a persistent fear of change that almost burned the entire town to the ground. It's about what happened when strangers arrived and tried to make themselves a home here, testing the strength and reach of what we thought were open arms. Might be there's a moral to the tale, but any lessons you take will likely depend on how and where you were raised. Point of view makes all the difference. Everyone around here has an opinion on who was to blame, because human nature loves to point a finger. Few facts are in dispute, but the truth, well, that's a bit more slippery. In any case, like a lot of stories these days, this one begins with gunshots.
A condemnation of the divisiveness that plagues our politicized society– liberal versus conservative, urban versus rural, us versus them– Libertyville is also a cry for compassion and community in a world that loves walls.
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