The Hubbard clan resides in, and poisons, their area of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her partner, who is convalescing at Baltimore and is affected with a terminal illness. However she certainly will manipulate her daughter, and needs him dwelling. She includes a sneaky organization bargain that she is cooking up with Oscar, her two brothers and Ben. Oscar includes a shady pig of a boy and a gloomy wife. Will the daughter have to wed this adolescent? Who would she grow up to be - her mother or her or his aunt? Or will she escape the fate of both?