Wilby Wonderful is a dark comedy about truth, transformation
and the difficulty of finding a quiet place to kill one’s
self. Over the course of one day, we follow the lives of several
characters in a small town as they attempt to maintain business
as usual in the face of a very unusual business.
Today in the small East Coast island town of Wilby, Carol French, the
local realtor, is trying to sell the Mayor a house that belonged
to her recently deceased mother-in-law. Her police officer husband
Buddy is in the middle of an investigation into the town’s
deviant underbelly. It seems that Buddy is also about to begin a
love affair with the wrong-side-of-the-tracks just-back-in-town
Sandra Anderson. Meanwhile, Sandra’s daughter Emily isn’t
very happy that her mother has given her a handful of condoms to
use with her new one-track-mind boyfriend. Add to the mix the apparently
dyslexic sign painter Duck MacDonald, and MacKenzie Fisher, the
Mayor’s algebra-challenged young daughter, and it’s
just another Thursday in Wilby. But then why is Dan Jarvis trying
to kill himself in all the wrong places? Where are all the drugs
suddenly coming from? And, what’s Carol French going to do
about that body in the closet?
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