Below IS WOKE
When a colossal creature surfaces off the coast of a dwindling Newfoundland fishing village, a stubborn widowed fisherman must confront the monster that has haunted him since boyhood to protect his family and the only home they have left. Below opens in 1986, as young Calvin Penney’s family tows their house across open water to resettle on Snooks Arm and something beneath the waves drags his father to his death. Forty years later, Calvin is a big-hearted but bullheaded widower who scrapes by hauling iceberg ice for a local vodka maker and renting rooms to tourists. Come Home Year brings his scattered children Wade, Mary and Jay back to the island at the same moment the government dangles a generous buyout to empty the town for good. When the distillery rejects his latest load as foul-smelling “bad ice,” Calvin takes a sample to marine researcher Dr. Fonda Howander at the island’s science