Dolores Claiborne

About the show

Interrogated about the death of her employer, wealthy widow Vera Donovan, Dolores recounts her life. Flashbacks reveal that her abusive husband Joe also molested their daughter Selena. During a solar eclipse, Vera urges Dolores to solve her problem. Dolores provokes Joe, who chases her into the woods and falls into a well she has concealed; she covers it, leaving him to die. In the present, adult Selena tells police that Dolores could not have killed Vera, who had become close to her. Vera left her estate to Dolores. Selena later learns Vera died by suicide, falling down stairs when Dolores was not looking. Selena leaves, still not having forgiven her mother for killing Joe.