In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive
grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as
something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods.
The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those
who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's
aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when
confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that
the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good.
The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts -- of
regret and violence -- transformed by the kudzu vines that have
enveloped the hills around it, swallowing homes, cars, rivers, and
hiding a terrible secret deeper still.
Colburn, a junkyard sculptor who's returned to Red Bluff, knows this
pain all too well, though he too is willing to hope for more when he
meets and falls in love with Celia, the local bar owner. The Deep South
gives these noble, broken, and driven folks the gift of human connection
while bestowing upon them the crippling weight of generations. With
broken histories and vagabond hearts, the townsfolk wrestle with the
evil in the woods -- and the wickedness that lurks in each and every one
of us.
