Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940s, Joseph Vaughan finds himself at the center of a series of mutilations and killings of young girls. Just a teenager, Joseph is determined to protect
his community, but he is powerless in preventing more murders - and no one is ever caught. Ten years later, desperate and plagued by everything he has witnessed, Joseph sets out to forge a new
life in New York. But the past won't leave him alone...