Plain Truth

In the quiet, pastoral world of a Pennsylvania Amish community, a shocking discovery shatters the peace: a newborn baby is found dead in a farmer's barn. Circumstantial evidence points to Katie Fisher, an unmarried eighteen-year-old Amish girl who denies she was ever pregnant. The case attracts Ellie Hathaway, a high-powered defense attorney from Philadelphia who is also Katie's distant relative. Burned out and seeking refuge from her own life, Ellie agrees to take the case, but to do so she must move onto the Fisher farm and live within the closed and unfamiliar world of the Amish.

As Ellie immerses herself in a culture governed by faith and tradition, she finds her modern sensibilities clashing with the community's steadfast ways. Her client, Katie, remains a mystery, bound by secrets she will not or cannot reveal. To find the truth, Ellie must navigate a world that operates on a different system of justice, forcing her to question everything she believes about the law, family, and the very nature of truth itself. The story explores the profound cultural divide between two worlds and the moral complexities that surface when they collide.