In Arizona at the turn of the twentieth century, three black women— a motel owner, her partner, and the motel’s cook— receive a threatening visit from the son of the motel owner's former partner. As the women and the cook’s son deal with the aftermath of the man’s visit, they confront the curses and bad juju that haunts the motel owner’s past and shapes their present.

In 1907, an African porter working for a British hunter starts cataloguing ogres of East Africa with the help of a woman informant. When she reveals she is an ogre herself, he must decide if he can help her fulfill her destiny.