A failing magazine writer and a nightclub hostess take a break from the world on a derelict plantation in rural Tennessee. As the ghosts of the past thicken the atmosphere, each must face the horrible price of peace.
1943: A woman, working for the TVA, travels to rural cove in North Carolina to aid in the displacement of a strange community of mutes. 1995: A man, who sings country music without a tongue, travels home to rural North Carolina to bury his mother.
Miriam DuFour has been cheated on, tossed out of cooking school, and is about to lose her apartment. Her only saving grace is a small café she inherits in the small town of Achewillow. A place where strange and dangerous things live.