The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a
forgotten corner of Tennessee - after twenty years of roaming. The wife
he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and
angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to
hunt down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his
mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the
respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the
way it can posion a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee,
a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to
reject this family curse.