17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.