Following the death of his unlovable uncle Fred in the early 1990's, high-school junior Steve Smith is forced to move with his family to the exurban community of McDowell Mills, Georgia - a place where the march of progress stopped around the same time as Sherman's March. Stuck in a new school where he must figure out how to fit in, Steve meets and becomes friends with a group of honor students who share a unique pastime: they meet a local...