Mounting pressures – including an unsolved family murder – test a close-knit rural community. Shot by director Laura Paglin, who lived at the local budget motel, the film lingers on what it means to come of age in a place left behind.

“Haunting, quietly searing, hard to forget” – Arlie Hochschild, author, Strangers in Their Own Land.  

“This is Pike County is as much about the unique people living in the seemingly forgotten town of Piketon as it is about the area itself and what it represents. It’s a considerate, bleak but ultimately inspiring documentary—the kind that really doesn’t get made anymore” -Mark Lakato, Take 2 Indie Review.

Cleveland-based filmmaker Laura Paglin will answer questions after the screening.