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Rachel Lambert
On the morning of May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale, arrived by train to New York’s Penn Station, calmly walked to the Empire State Building and leapt to her death. In her wake were left six people forever impacted by the choice she made on a cold, grey day in spring, and whose stories would become unwittingly intertwined. From the Ruins is an honest and provocative story about love, faith, art, obsession, and how every action has unpredictable reactions.
Logline: A man must return home to rural Ohio where he and his family still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed twenty years past.