In a small Pennsylvania coal town, modern greed confronts an even darker power - as old as the Earth, itself.
Photojournalist Kevin O'Leary returns to his home town of Carbonville for the funeral of his newspaper-reporter cousin, Tom. Before he died in a car accident, Tom was looking into charges of corruption behind a huge new mall construction project, and Kevin suspects murder. On the pretext of doing a photography book on the town, he stays around to investigate.
Kevin soon meets Megan Carey, who heads up the Citizens Against Valley Exploitation (CAVE), a local ecology group battling the mall project. Megan hates the developer, Sal Ricciardi, and fans Kevin's suspicions that Sal arranged Tom's "accident." But as the conflict between the two factions escalates, Kevin realizes both are capable of lethal violence. He also learns that Megan and her followers believe an ancient Celtic earth god protects the valley, and will help them prevent the mall's opening...one way or another...
Genre: Mystery