Elegant and passionate, Lick Creek follows the haunting love story of Emily, a fiery young woman living in the remote mountains of Appalachia. Bereaved of the men in her life following a mining disaster, Emily struggles to support herself and her mother. But when a charismatic and mysterious electrical worker is struck by lightning, and her mother takes him in, Emily is seduced by his past the world of Jewish immigrants forced to flee persecution in their homelands. A passionate love affair begins, but Emily knows she has to take revenge upon a man whose violent act still haunts her and together she and Joseph must face the world.
