Haunted by the death of her sister, a young woman's reality erodes as she is plagued by a darkness hidden in her family's past.

Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious, idealistic teacher, accepts Bennington county SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacraw Island. Staffless 'head' mi

A young woman's mother wants her to bear Satan's child.