The death of Naomi's father should be the happiest day of her life. But when she prepares to finally flee her small Missouri town, a run-in with a new neighbor, Clara, makes Naomi reconsider leaving. As she grows closer to Clara, and reconnects with her estranged younger brother, Aaron, she thinks maybe she can nurture a newfound peace in a place that never felt like home.

However, Clara's controlling husband and town marshal, as well as a force much more ancient and insidious, threaten to break the new ties that bind her there. While Naomi works to break generational cycles and curses, she finds herself following in her father's obsessive footsteps and is forced to defend the ones she loves from the evil embedded in the Ozarks.