Exile

Failed celebrity journalist Tom Ronstadt returns to his hometown and to his father, Sam, who is gently losing his mind. But events that made him leave 18 years ago come back to haunt him, along with secrets his father wanted kept hidden. Tom's sister Nancy leaves him to deal with their father as both men grapple with past and present. But Sam can't return home without stirring up fresh trouble.

As Tom struggles to unlock old secrets, he finds paths that lead to a discredited doctor in a long-shuttered local asylum. Taking Sam to a local charity event is a near disaster, but he continues to try to open his father's mind. A football match seems to do the trick until a car veers into them, perhaps on purpose. With his father in hospital, Tom is at a loose end until a letter brings a clue.

Nancy finally agrees to help Tom, and it turns out that Sam and the asylum doctor are not the only ones who know the truth that he is searching for. There's one more man still living who is haunted by the past, and the time has come to confront him. But even when the dark and hidden truth is known, the guilty may go free. How far is Tom willing to go to put the ghosts of the past away?