Holed up in her eerily vacant ancestral mansion in hot and humid Louisiana, the embittered and reclusive Southern belle, Charlotte Hollis, is still living with the pale ghosts of the past, thirty-seven long years after the brutal murder of her clandestine beau, John. Now, balancing between guilt and innocence, sanity and insanity, Charlotte finds herself with the back to the wall when the Louisiana Highway Commission gives her an outrageous and equally uncompromising ultimatum: she is to leave her property to make way for the construction of a bridge or face the music. Perhaps, under those grave circumstances, the estranged Cousin Miriam can lend a helping hand. However, what good is having an enviable residence when one is steadily losing his grip on reality?—Nick Riganas