It started in church. She should have been listening to the minister. Instead, a precocious fifth-grade schoolgirl saw something curious that morning, something she couldn't shake.

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Julie Spencer had detected a relationship between prominence and churchgoing. She decided to confirm her suspicions by talking to people and then, if she were sure enough of her findings, present them in a school theme.

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Eventually, word of her ‘research’ and her theme leaked, and many in town considered her ideas divisive. It appeared her investigation had uncovered the community’s secret, a ‘secret that could have no name.’

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As the financial interests of powerful people rested on the town’s façade of concord, they threatened to punish the girl, her teacher, and her parents.

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Soon, a whistleblower and a reporter got wind of Julie's plight ...