Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters, Miriam's sheltered existence is cracked open.
Darkest Miriam is a 2024 Canadian drama film, directed by Naomi Jaye. Adapted from Martha Baillie's novel The Incident Report, the film stars Britt Lower as Miriam, a librarian in Toronto who leads a closed-off, grief-stricken life after her father's death; amid a series of strange incidents at the library, she meets and begins a romance with Janko, a Slovenian immigrant who opens her up to new possibilities.