New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. Journalist's wild drug addicted daughter just adds to tensions between two families' cultures.

When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.

Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.