Kogda molodoy lesopromyshlennik Pemberton privozit zhenu v svoy lager posredi hrebtov Appalachey, ego zhdet nepriyatnyy syurpriz: otets prezhney vozlyublennoy, prostoy kuharki, beremennoy rebenkom hozyaina, planiruet ubit podlogo soblaznitelya na glazah u docheri. No sudba rasporyazhaetsya inache, i zhizni neskolkih lyudey spletayutsya v tugoy klubok na fone Velikoy depressii 1930-h. Zdes shodyatsya voedino alchnost i chest, lyubov i zhestokost, volya i slabost. . . Pembertony gotovy unichtozhit vseh, kto meshaet im podnyatsya k vershinam vlasti, - no vyderzhit li ih soyuz bremya greha?
