![]() ![]() Their nights are full of drink and terrible silences, and Jean feels jealousy and distrust invading her life and her work. On the boat she has chartered for this project, she and her husband are falling apart. Jean's marriage is enduring heavy weather of its own. How could a marriage survive those privations? Was this misery connected to the killings? Immersing herself in accounts of the lives of the fishermen's wives who were its victims, she becomes obsessed with the barrenness of these women's days: the ardor-killing labor, the long stretches of loneliness, the maddening relentless winds that threatened to scour them off the rocky island. ![]() More than a century later, a photographer, Jean, comes to the island to shoot a photo-essay about the legendary crime. A third woman survived the attack, hiding in a sea cave until dawn. On a small island off the New Hampshire coast in 1873, two women were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. ![]()
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