Told in alternating chapters that go back and forth between the 1990s
and the present, Unravelling uncovers a story of corruption that
connects the two small-town British Columbia protagonists whose worlds
are irreparably damaged. Ruthless octogenarian Vivian Lennox fights her
deteriorating mind as she defends the catastrophic decisions she made
decades earlier. Armed only with her curiosity, 10-year-old Elena Reid
is dangerously unaware of who or what she is about to expose as she
searches for answers to her father's disappearance, following an
explosion at the sawmill. The parallel stories come to a head with the
arrival of a newcomer who is determined to find out exactly what
happened to the town more than 20 years earlier, and how deeply Vivian
herself was involved.