After the seemingly idyllic town of Etan, Ohio is devastated by a tornado, the dark qualities of the town and its people slowly creep to the surface.
Written as a treatment for a television series, Whirlwind focuses on the events following the tornado as the many killed by the storm only scratches the surface of its impact. The series primarily focus on the lives of four characters as they have their lives flipped upside down.
Angela Smith loses her husband, and now has to single-handedly raise her two children while searching for acceptance as she faces many growing questions about her late partner.
Derrick Mason is left on the wrong side of a drug deal gone wrong, and now scrambles to resolve it.
Deputy Scott Mako, two weeks from moving his family away to attend university, is promoted to Sheriff after the previous one is killed in the tornado. He must deal with a town in shambles and buried in heartache, while investigating potential leads in a new case.
Disillusioned with his life after the loss of his job and his increasingly hostile marriage, the tornado gives Keith Davis a chance to start a new life under the pretense of his death.
As these characters search for answers and travel down various paths, their lives will intersect in intimate and potentially disastrous ways.
The treatment can be accessed here.