An MOW starring Kelly Preston has begun shooting in Halifax and Windsor, NS. An adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel The Tenth Circle, the picture of the same name went to camera on Jan. 12 for a 19-day shoot.

The movie for Lifetime is the second in a row with Nova Scotia locations for executive producers Michael Jaffe and Howard Braunstein, in tandem with Canadian producer Michael Mahoney (Martha Inc: The Story of Martha Stewart) and local production house Magic Rock. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, a Jaffe/Braunstein production, shot in and around Halifax in November and December.

The budget for The Tenth Circle is estimated at US$4.6 million. It is being helmed by Peter Markle, who in his long career as a director has completed a host of TV dramas, from The X-Files to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and new series Life and Cane.

Preston stars as Laura Stone, a teacher at a college in Maine and wife to comic book artist and stay-at-home dad Daniel Stone, played by Ron Eldard (Freedomland). When their teenage daughter Trixie (Brittany Robertson) accuses her boyfriend Jason (Jamie Johnston) of date rape, and Jason later dies in an apparent suicide, the Stone family becomes the center of a high-profile investigation. Family secrets come to a head, including marital infidelity and violence, leading back to Daniel’s childhood as the only white boy in an Alaskan native peoples community.