A boy grows up in 1990s America, protected from many of the outside world's ills by his upbringing on a family-run tobacco farm. But when his grandfather passes away, he begins to notice that, as time moves forward, bad things naturally occur.As he enters adolescence, the boy tries to grasp the more grown-up issues of death, religion, and politics. Ultimately, when the government threatens to end the growing of tobacco in his state, the boy's main...