Black Road unfolds in a small Ohio town, with one high school and
one celebrated football team and one jumbo marching band. When the
bad-boy star quarterback and his friends go too far one night with one
of their pranks, a car crash severely injures two other students. The
consequences of the crash and the court trials that follow reverberate
through the town, reaching beyond the local community in haunting,
almost surreal ways as the larger world seems to be turned upside down.
As the details leading up to the crash are revealed bit by bit, a
surprising number of people are implicated the outsider teenager who
lives alone in a trailer next to the Amish farm where the crash
happened; a high school teacher who fights to bring goodness and beauty
to young lives; an Indian doctor and her school-aged daughter who hopes
to follow her brother to Harvard; a Japanese exchange student.
Watching from behind everything is an actual Greek chorus broken loose
in time, Apollo and Artemis, lost souls trekking through the modern
world