On the evening of August 15th, 1952 the worst floods ever to hit the West of England destroyed the beautiful coastal village of Lynmouth in North Devon. Torrential rainfall transformed moorland streams into raging rivers that carved a terrifying path to the sea.
Thirty-four men, women and children lost their lives that night.
Running from the ghosts of her past, Ingrid Clarke stumbles across evidence that this tragedy was not so much an Act of God as an Act of Man. She has to uncover the truth - whatever the personal cost.
But others are determined it's a truth that will never be told: those who will go to any lengths to conceal their manipulation of one of the greatest powers on earth
Thirty-four men, women and children lost their lives that night.
Running from the ghosts of her past, Ingrid Clarke stumbles across evidence that this tragedy was not so much an Act of God as an Act of Man. She has to uncover the truth - whatever the personal cost.
But others are determined it's a truth that will never be told: those who will go to any lengths to conceal their manipulation of one of the greatest powers on earth