The Diviners

Fallen Preachers, Water Witches and Spiritual Vacuums: See It All in ‘The Diviners’

Zion is an eerie Midwestern town that is all too familiar. The job market is bad and echoes our own times. People are trapped in limited views. The town’s church burned down years ago, leaving a spiritual vacuum that no tater-tot hotdishes can fill. Is modern America quite similar, despite its glut of useless spiritual charlatans? We never find out what happened to Zion’s former preacher. Spiritual questions hang over the world like a storm, but no one has come up with the right answers yet. We’re waiting, and maybe C.C. Showers, the former minister who arrives in town, will help.