An artist in the 1930s finds herself caught between duty and her unorthodox desires.

Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935. Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a talented young artist
who studied in Paris, has sacrificed her dreams of working in New York
City to put a roof over her newly bankrupt and ailing father's head. Two
months later he has died and Dez is bound by the promises she has made
to her father, her husband, and her town. Stifled by her marriage to
kind but conservative Asa, who is impatient to start a family, her
ambitions are fading. Dez also stands to lose her father's legacy, the
Cascade Shakespeare Theatre, as Massachusetts decides whether to flood
Cascade to create a new reservoir for Boston.

Amid this turmoil arrives Jacob Solomon, a fellow artist and kindred spirit for whom Dez
feels an immediate and strong attraction. As their relationship reaches a
pivotal moment, a man is found dead and the town points its collective
finger at Jacob, a Jewish outsider. When unexpected acclaim and a chance
to recapture her lost dreams of life in New York City arise, Dez must
make an impossible choice.

CASCADE interweaves a town's impending destruction and America's struggles during the Depression with small-town anti-Semitism and the bohemian art world of Greenwich Village.

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