River Women

Weeks before Kelithe is set to depart for New York to reunite with her mother, her son, Timothy, drowns. The drowning ignites the forgotten town, Standfast, whose residents accuse Kelithe of watching her son drown so she could fulfil her desire to leave for America. After 15 years of absence, Kelithe's mother returns and struggles to determine whether or not the daughter she doesn't really know could be guilty of such a crime. While Kelithe tries to come to terms with her mother's long absence, love, the town that is ganging up against her, the limitations of life in Standfast, and her future, her mother strives to come to terms with her own desire to remain unencumbered by a needy daughter, as well as her need to belong to her hometown. Standfast, long cut off from the remainder of Jamaica, uses the drowning to launch a political fight.