The Truth Will Out

It’s Friday the 13th, 2009, one day before Valentine’s Day, on the set of the popular cable news show Whittemore Walter: The Truth Will Out. As celebrity journalist/personality Whittemore Walter covers the one-year anniversary of the hate-inspired murder of 15 year old Ronnie Principe, he is haunted in more literal ways by the boy and his story. The newsroom is in fact swarming with love: Whittemore and his female co-anchor have a romantic past to wrestle with, his mother loves him almost unconditionally, and his producer – his semi-secret boyfriend – has given him an ultimatum: come out or break up. As he must choose between the relative safety of a "discreet" lifestyle and the person he loves most, the reality of his news show begins to crumble and he must face Ronnie, who was true to himself – and paid a price. Mixing real stories ripped from the headlines with imagined ones that should be making headlines, The Truth Will Out drags biting humor, as well as a certain well-known journalist, from the closet.