It Flows Down the Mountain
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A tale of love, survival, madness, and revenge.
In the Summer of 1892, Della Blake lives a life of solitude on the mountain. Her days consist of raising her young son and trying to survive the harsh landscape of the Rockies. When Della finds a strange man injured in the woods, the fabric of her careful lifestyle starts to unravel. She'll have to decide how far she's willing to go to keep the secrets of the past hidden, even if the answer means giving up her own happiness, or worse, her very life.
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I always knew I was goin' to die...I just never expected it to be like this. Blazin' hot desert, far from home, alone, ambushed, shot in the back an' left for dead- no, I'd never imagined it to be like this. Problem was...instead of dyin' right off, I got mad. A vicious, righteous, stuck in your craw, won't rest 'til justice is done kind of mad. Pa would say 'Catch a bear by his nose, you get mauled. Catch a Rivers'...that's where things get messy'.
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