Hidden beneath nostalgia of the fictional town of Mayberry, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, has a violent underground of drug cartels, human trafficking, addiction, and murder. The struggles of the people who live there have reached crisis proportions. HOMETOWN AMERICA begins with the story of the suspicious death of 30-year-old Jessica Stanley, and through her mother Wendy’s desperate search for answers, truth, and justice, enters a world that exists beneath the idea of America.