Gideon Banks is a sculptor of modest success who has finally realized that he is incapable of repairing his broken marriage. Now frantically on the run from the law after an attempted murder, Gid is joined by Merit his adopted, introverted son and John Frederick, a seventy-year-old turnip-grower. What follows is a moving journey through rural Alabama that lays bare the poverty and isolation of the landscape, and forces the three men to confront their own personal struggles.