Rights
For Film & Television
When an English piano tuner discovers that his saintly wife, Charleston’s most beloved Christian leader, keeps a ledger of the powerful men she has bled dry, he learns that the truth is no match for a woman an entire city has decided to worship.
- Format
- Limited series, 8 × 60 min
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, domestic noir
- Setting
- Charleston, South Carolina, today
- Rights
- Film & TV rights available
Why it works on screen
01
A star role at its center
02
Structure ready for episodes
03
A villain the genre has not seen
04
Southern gothic atmosphere
05
Timely themes
06
A world with room to continue
Principal characters
- Rebecca Hale, 46
- Widow, shelter founder, voice of a faith podcast with a million listeners.
- Thomas Wren
- English piano tuner, her second husband.
- Grace, 24
- Her devoted daughter.
- Margaret Whitmore
- The pastor’s wife and closest friend.
- Harlan Pierce, 62
- Estate lawyer and board president.
- Claire Benton, 39
- A local reporter.
In the tradition of Big Little Lies, Dirty John, Sharp Objects and Under the Banner of Heaven.