Salem Sinners

1975. The Vietnam War ends with the Fall of Saigon. John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. In Sacramento, California former Manson girl Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 5th but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent. Ford survives a second assassination attempt on September 22nd, this time by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco. The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board. NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL). The Lutz family moves into 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, Long Island, New York only to flee from the house after 28 days, which will go on to inspire the story of The Amityville Horror.In Salem, Massachusetts, AKA the "Witch City," a young woman is building a life for herself and her young daughter, unaware that forces outside of her world are converging to drag them into a series of crimes that breach the boundaries of horror. Haunted by a past that more than brushed up against true evil she is challenged to move forward with promise and hope. As she is drawn into the miasma of crimes that test the skill of law enforcement she comes to realize that people around her are also burdened with sins that are erupting into the light and will change everything for everyone. As if that wasn't enough her daughter is a special child whose remarkable powers constantly force her to walk the thin, tenuous line between darkness and light.The mother and daughter find themselves at the center of a diverse group of people who have their own secrets and sins, and who may or may not be involved in the crimes taking place in the infamous town in which they live. All concerned in the roiling, interlocking experiences that defined their pasts and might define their futures find themselves battling the consequences of sin in the struggle to overcome evil and emerge into the light.