Jaws of Life

<p>In the hills of north central West Virginia there lives a cast of characters who face all manner of problems. From the people who are incarcerated in West Virginia's prisons to a woman who is learning how to lose her sight with grace to another who sorely regrets selling her land to a fracking company <em>Jaws of Life</em> portrays the diverse concerns the people of this region face every day--poverty mental illness drug abuse the loss of coal mines and the rise of new extractive industries that exert their own toll.</p><p>While these larger concerns exist on the edges of their realities these characters must still deal with quotidian difficulties: how to coexist with ex-spouses how to care for sick family members and how to live with friends who always seem to have more.</p>