Truth Springs

Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk – with the exception of Camille Dixon – a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora, whose estranged daughter Emma has just returned to town.

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