小型事故

当一场矿难无情的降临在阿帕拉契山下的一座煤矿小城，三个迥然不同的当地人却因此莫名其妙地被卷入了复杂的秘密漩涡。阿莫斯·詹金斯，唯一的矿难幸存者，却成为调查过程的焦点。随着越来越多的对于谁来对这场灾难负责的疑问，一位煤矿高级主管的儿子失踪了。孩子的母亲戴安和他丈夫比尔遍寻无果，两个人也因此彼此疏远。最后他们只好向当地教堂寻求帮助，在教堂她发现阿莫斯是一个令人欣慰的朋友，她还见到了她儿子的同学欧文·布里格斯，她知道这个人在她的儿子失踪的时候曾经出现过。A recent coal mining accident has killed several miners and left the small town community scarred and traumatized. The wealthy mining executive responsible for the accident, Bill Doyle, wants to pretend that it never happened, referring to the mining families as "trailer trash". His wife Diana and son JT know better, though. Diana is drowning in guilt and feels socially awkward around the other rich snobs she used to be friends with. She copes with it by having an affair with Amos, the lone survivor of the mining accident who now walks with a limp and lives with his dying father. JT is worried that his father will go to prison, and takes out his anger on the mining families' children, especially Owen Briggs. Owen is a young boy who lost his father in the disaster. He lives with his bad-tempered aunt, his grieving mother, and his little brother James, who has Down's Syndrome. One day Owen is in the woods with James, and he gets into a fight with JT, accidentally going too far...