Three boys wreak havoc upon a woman's Georgia property and refuse to leave.

In a rural Mississippi town, a well-intentioned Black woman tries to help a clueless young white mother take care of her baby, but the mother's family gets in the way.

To generate positive publicity for her show, a TV celebrity in the American South attends the funeral service of one of her young fans, but ends up having a spiritual reckoning of her own while she's there.

After he spots a giant catfish in a river in the southern United States, a farmer dedicates ten years of his life to catching it, and leaves his wife to tend the farm.

When a Southern ex-Navy soldier turned farmhand from Alabama begins to feel hopeless about his relationship with his wife, he decides that getting a religious tattoo on his back will solve all his marital problems.

When a young boy's brother is killed by cotton pickers in Georgia during the 1950s, the boy becomes violent toward his friends. Meanwhile, the boy's father questions his role in his dead son's life.

After a young woman in Tennessee hears that her husband has been in a serious automobile accident, she waits with her aunt as her brother goes out to determine the severity.

A Black nurse in a Mississippi is adored by the whole neighborhood, even though she is mischievous at times. Bu when a new family moves in and hires her, they are unforgiving of her antics.

A young boy living in North Carolina watches his mentally suffering mother yearn for her husband to be home, though his job requires him to be out of town five days a week.