It's the 1950s. The American South. And Moses is returning home. After years away, he's visiting Miss Clio, the woman who found him as a baby in a basket on a creek mudbank. Harve and Enos are a couple of hardscrabble losers making time at the local Grain & Feed. They need nineteen dollars to pay back the boys at the V.F.W. so they can get back in Friday night's card game. They hatch a plan-grab a shotgun and rob a Black church...