The Effigy is the story of how a young man known as the Killer Cook and a young woman (Lisa Treatorn) living in a small fictitious town in a fictitious county (Madison County) become entangled in a relationship and had a child in 1986. The man, an inexperienced cook, learns how to cook in a restaurant, while the woman works at the telephone company. They are separate most of the day, but in the ev...