After 11 old age in a Mississippi River province prison house, Charles Taze Russell Gaines fight to go forth his past times sin behind him as he return place to his stoic male parent, R. J. Mitchell. One fatal nighttime he meet Maben, a immature female parent with nil but a stolen gun and a murdered police force deputy sheriff to her name. Desperate and on the run, Charles Taze Russell and Maben must swear one another to get away their own fortune, before the truth of their intertwined violent past times endanger to destruct them.