Into the Night

Into the Night is the story of a family struggling to come to terms with the past. It is the description of a young man's coming of age in the rural south and it is the portrait of a way of life that must either adapt or die in a world that is rapidly changing around it. More specifically it is about the life of Jim Sturgeon, the rape and murder of a young girl, the aftermath of the crime and the punishment that follows as a result of it. The story explores the tension that sometimes arises between man's conscience and the law of the land. Furthermore it raises the question of the consistence of memory as well as that of actions and their consequences and what it is that makes a person who and what they become.