An enigmatic man arrives in a small West Texas town, claiming he wants to join a high stakes poker game that has been going on every weekend for fifty years, but as he joins the players, they soon learn his more sinister motives for coming to town.
In the summer of 1960, twelve-year-old Lou Ann resolves to live a different life in the future than the Texas wheat farm existence she knows, as she deals with her unstable mother, who is pregnant again after having suffered five miscarriages.
High school senior Angie Dupree stirs up animosity and danger in the small west Texas community where her family has recently moved when she sets out to investigate the hit-and-run accident that has left her brother in a coma.
