Don W. Wegner

Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.

フロリダで怠惰な生活を送っていた少女パーシーは、母ロレーンの死を知り、故郷のニューオーリンズに戻る。そこでパーシーは、母の家に住み着き、母を看取った見知らぬ2人の男、母の友人と名乗る元英文学教授で初老のアルコール中毒の男ボビーとその助手で作家志望の青年ローソンと出会う。幼い頃から離れて暮らしていた母のことを知りたくなったパーシーは、彼らと3人で共同生活を始める。

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.