In rural Virginia, a teenage boy takes a huge bag of money from a wrecked car, believing the driver to be dead. However, the boy later learns the driver survived and disappeared into the woods and is, in fact, his father--a bank-robber who abandoned his mother before he was born--when the sheriff comes to warn him and his mother that they might be in danger.

When a human couple loses their half-human, half-centaur child, the father must put aside his pain and mother her fear in order to bring the child back to safety.