Tom Merrit

This film is based on Edgar Lee Master's collection of poetry, Spoon River Anthology, from 1915. The book includes a large number of epitaphs of real and fictitious residents of Spoon River, a progressive region in the state of Illinois. This evocative, visual poem in black and white is the first of a trilogy. It is the story of Tom Merrit, a man caught up in a reality he thought he was only observing.