I was about to report the biggest story of my life. Or I was about to end up dead.

Alice Fantone is a newspaper reporter in small-town Vermont. She dreams of working at a daily in a large city, but for now, it's her job to cover select board meetings and the lighted tractor parade that starts the Christmas season. But all that changes on Thanksgiving when a call for backup on the police scanner breaks the silence of the early morning. Over the course of the day, Alice chases down leads and pieces together the story of the biggest thing to ever happen in Black River, Vermont. A love letter to shoe leather journalism, On The Record is the story of a small town, a heinous crime, and the reporter who puts it all together.