Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving
storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body
of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms
of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a
second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do f
rom stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together wi
th his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to
do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or sk
in color.'