I KNEW YOU WHEN is an academic, family and climate drama. When husband John is offered the presidency of a deep South university, Annie (two teens in tow) reluctantly leaves her D.C. life behind to move to the deep South. There, Annie, a former radical, takes on a divisive fracking case with her first love, militant Billy Bolton. The case pits her against not only the town leaders, a conservative press, the university board, and a right-wing anti-environmental group but also her own family, who knew nothing about her radical past. As the secrets of her past become public, and the townspeople become more and more divided over the case and the activists invading their sleepy Southern town, tensions reach an explosive boiling point.