The year is 1925. A young girl is orphaned after her parents death. She has been sent to live with her Godfather in Mississippi. She knows nothing about the man she is to live with or the place she is being sent. Upon her arrival she is plunged into a world very different than she is used to. Almost at once she realizes her Godfather is a man that has many secrets and is surrounded by a host of unscrupulous characters. She is introduced into a life of darkness and decadence that lies just beneath the charming southern facade of the local town that seems to have no limit.