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In Spruce Avenue, crime crosses generations, connected by seemingly random events that rupture the stability of a town’s history and future simultaneously. Sergeant Drake, as a law officer and troubled family man, must act to ensure peace and order, while in direct conflict with the present and sins of his past.
Sins that have spawned a brand new generation of troublemakers fostering an unexpected rise in local crime, manifested by the actions of a dangerous trio that he has both unknown and unresolved connections to.
As he acts on the new infestation of criminality, a darkness in the sheen of town’s society, a decades old lie, created by hate and many juvenile mistakes at the centre of a tragic societal and familial upheaval, threatens to unravel everything he has worked for and plunge Spruce Avenue back into the trauma of its almost forgotten, long ago dark days where crime ran rampant.
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