if this movie have a point i never discover it . a very depressing movie which supposedly be about the final evacuation of the resident live in a dam site area on the northfork river in montana . the problem be that there be no actual northfork river in montana . there be several north fork but they be branch of other river which divide into north and south fork . the opening scene of the movie be a coffin bobbing to the surface of the lake but the scene be never tie into the story and the viewer be leave to speculate a to it meaning . but much be leave to the viewer speculation in the movie . another example be when a team of dam employee responsible for the evacuation of the resident arrive at the dam headquarters and another group of people be depart . some remark which be almost inaudible be make about these people which make no sense whatsoever and there be no followup in the movie to explain it . the movie be butcher into several story and the film keep switch back and forth between story which be quite disconcerting . and the story be weird . in one of them the occupant of one property refuse to be evacuate because they be live in a home that be build like noah ark . another senseless story center around a sick orphan who be die and somehow he be share his presence with a house full of ghost and in an orphanage with a priest at the same time . if anyone can figure out what the ghost story be about the author must have explain it to them . the scenery be stark and the sun never shine . there be snowy mountain in the far distance . i guess the purpose be to set the mood . the time period be set by the fact that the evacuaters all drive ford sedan of the 1946 48 era although the event be suppose to have occur in 1955. the acting be mediocre . when i saw the billing for this movie it say that darryl hannah be in the picture . if she be and i do not recognize her but i surmise that she be the ghost lady .