Across The River To Motor City is a series about an insurance investigator in Detroit and Windsor, and about the shifting allegiances and ambitions that straddle the Detroit/Windsor Canada/US border. Benjamin Ford's 30th birthday happens to fall on a fateful day: November 22, 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination. It's also the day that his flight attendant girlfriend, Katie, disappears on a flight back from Dallas... The mystery of what happened to her, and why, consumes the life of Ben Ford, and eventually brings in his adult daughter, Kathleen, when Katie's body turns up 40 years later. Family mysteries and inrigue play out against a spectacular backdrop of some of the more momentous events of recent US and Canadian history. The six-episode series is being shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Toronto, and Detroit/Windsor, and will air on CHUM stations in 2007.
