The Watersmith

When hard-drinking handyman Jack Calloway discovers an old

moonshine still behind the Smoky Mountain cabin he plans to flip, his teenage

son dares him to get it running. Jack accepts- until his wife, Jolene, tries to

sabotage the first batch and is horribly burned in the process. Wracked with

guilt, Jack sends their son away and moves Jolene into the cabin to recover

while he tries to sober up.

Doctors diagnose Jolene with a rare post-traumatic dementia that

responds only to scent- smell being the strongest trigger of memory. Desperate

to help, Jack begins distilling essential oils from her favorite flowers,

searching for the one that might bring her back.

When a fleeting moment of clarity during a visit from their son

slips away again, Jack grows frantic- willing to distill anything in his grasp

to reach her.

A haunting, tender tale of love, regret, and the volatile bonds

between parents and children, The Watersmith is a story of oil and

water, memory and mercy- and how far one man will go to bring his family home.