Runtime: 75min. Rated 14A. 

Description: 

“Ed Gass-Donnelly makes appropriate, unpretentiously artful, stylistic choices in this tale of redemption centred on a middle-aged provincial cop with a violent past whose will to reset his life is tested once he begins investigating the brutal murder of a young woman.

“Walter is the chief of police in a small, rural Mennonite community in Ontario. A born-again Christian, he remains an anomaly in the pacifist culture of a small town and surrounding  farmland. They speak behind his back, and he is even ridiculed by the main suspect, Steve,

a trashy ne’er-do-well who had six months before broken up Walter's relationship with the beautiful, headstrong Rita, something not lost on the police detective, Dave Washington, whose supervision of the case relegates Walter and his sidekick to field work. 

“Walter insists on interfering in the case. At first it is not clear whether his persistence stems from jealousy or outrage. Gass-Donnelly refuses easy answers. It brings together the patches of his bbarely repressed aggressive impulses and the quiet scenes of him in church or at prayer.

“Gass-Donnelly never loses sight of his major theme. The Mennonite faith and lifestyle are more suggested than overtly played out. The fall vistas are eerily beautiful. The unusual relationship of