After Oz

It’s 1896, and 11-year-old Dorothy Gale has been sent to a mental health facility for treatment. It wasn’t just her fantastical tale of an enchanted land with witches and flying monkeys and a wizard, who wasn’t really a wizard. No, Dorothy’s biggest crime is confessing to having killed a witch, a tale that coincides with the discovery of the murder of the town’s prickliest citizen, an isolated spinster whose body was found doused in lye, the skin of her face dripping off her skull. Psychologist Evelyn Grace Wilford is intrigued by Dorothy’s case and does not believe her capable of committing the crime. Concerned with Dorothy’s welfare, she heads to the small town where Dorothy grew up, hoping to find the real killer. The psychologist-turned-detective’s arrival is greeted with suspicion, and the townspeople don’t take kindly to her determination to stir up trouble.