Operation District Trash

AFTER A MANDATED RETIREMENT, a famous newspaper Editor-in Chief, Edward Grant grows tired of sleeping-in, and of fly-fishing most every day. He longs for his life’s work of writing and printing the news. Several months after retirement he decides to buy a closed newspaper business in a small rural community. It would be something to do that was both meaningful and entertaining.

HE SOON DISCOVERS the two previous operators of the newspaper business were mysteriously murdered. As he investigates the two deaths, he uncovers the files collected by the two former operators of a criminal syndicate; but Ed will not approach the police, having been warned not to trust the uniform police officers in that small town.

HE THEN REACHES OUT to his estranged daughter, who was once a federal prosecutor, now in private practice. The daughter––an only child, blames Ed––her father for her mother’s death, though the illness was a non-curable form of cancer. She ignores her father’s requests for help, not realizing his plea for help is truly to save his life, and not a disguised attempt to reconnect with her.

SHORTLY THEREAFTER, Ed Grant’s daughter Jill, is notified of his death by investigators who tell her they believe is the work of the same killers who murdered the two former newspaper operators.

JILL VOWS TO DO whatever is necessary to find her father’s killers and bring them to justice: as it is the only way of obtaining a form of self-forgiveness. She meets with resistance and conflict, two of which begins with strong competition between her intentions, a judge and the Chief of Police, before an unimaginable turn of events brings two together, to form a partnership––But will she live to make it a lasting one?