Canadian : Sweet Hereafter

In the back drop of serene Canadian village, a story, hypnotically told, of a tragedy and its aftermath. Two parallel stories run through the movie - one of the ambulance chaser who him selves have troubles back home...and of a surviver of the accident, a more sensitive one of the bunch.
She gets to live her favorite bedtime story of pied piper.

There is this opening scene of car wash that sets the mood for the things to come.
Sense of community among distressed is paramount and it gets its rightful place in the scheme of things.

The film's tag line "There is no such thing as a simple truth" lives it up to show how.