Wesley Booth is a troubled young veteran, seething in the repressive culture of central Louisiana in 1971. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong job, wrong season, the way he sees it. Who can blame him for having a little drink from time to time? His mother can, to be sure. And his creditors, and his bandmates, and…well, even the animals seem to have his number. Then there’s the weather. And, of course, there’s Howard. Things take a turn when Booth meets two people. One is a genuine badass. The other is a girl. Booth senses a way out of his misery. Instead, he’s sucked into a hell beyond his imagining. Just as Booth takes a bold, perilous first step toward deliverance, he’s tasked with an inescapable moral imperative, right in the path of his worst nightmare. The question now is whether Booth can survive doing the right thing…