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It has been raining for so long that even though it has not always been raining the townspeople begin to feel as though this is the case - as though the weather has always been this way, the sky this gray, the puddles this profound. And so finds Noah's wife when she arrives in this gray and wet little town in the hills where it's been raining for as long as anyone can remember. Driven by her desire to help her minister husband revive his congregation, she tries her best to establish herself in this strange community. However, she soon realizes her efforts will only be thwarted by her eccentric new neighbors, among them an idiom-welding Italian hardware store owner, a towering town matriarch, and a lovelorn zookeeper determined to stand by his charges. Overwhelmed, Noah's wife fails to realize that Noah, too, is battling his own internal crisis. Soon the river waters rise, flooding the streets of the town and driving scores of wild animals out of the once renowned zoo. As the water swallows up the houses, the telephone poles, the single highway out of town, Noah, his wife, and the townspeople must confront not only the savage forces of nature but also the fragile ties that bind them to one another, all before their world is washed away. |
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