A young boy and his mother from small-town Indiana travel to Mudlavia, a mystical natural health spa that reveals more than it heals. The boy works to make sure his mother doesn't fall into the trap of a mysterious patient.

A young schoolteacher struggles to break the news of her pregnancy to her husband, haunted by the secret of her past — that she's adopted, which leads her to question her legitimacy as a mother.

A young man from an old, powerful southern family grows up hunting a legendary bear only to grapple with his relationship with nature and his family legacy.