Synopsis
A burned out reporter tracks down the last living survivor of a rural oil boom town in the hills of Tyler County, West Virginia, which disappeared from the history books in the year 1910. The village of Stringtown had over five thousand residents and five hundred active oil derricks at its height. Yet after 1910, nothing remained, and only a brief newspaper headline from the time mentioned a disastrous tornado which killed hundreds. Determined to find the truth, the reporter spends several days in Alvy, West Virginia interviewing Curtis Kinkaid, a descendant of the soul survivor. But what he learns is that the climactic storm of August 27th, 1910 was not caused by mother nature. As the surprising truth unravels, he begins to question his belief between religion and fact, battling his own storm to the bitter and shocking end.
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