Lunsford Planck escaped the Santee Delta area of coastal South Carolina decades ago, determined to become an international photographer and purge past scars from his memory. For the past twenty years, Luns' healing home base has been New York City, where he lived with his partner Jay. One week ago, Jay secretly visited the Santee Delta to paint a surprise masterpiece of Lun's birthplace. While in the Delta, Jay was beaten and dragged behind a pickup truck and left for dead. Luns returned to the Delta to find Jay in a coma and dying. Luns now goes undercover to solve the attacks on the love of his life. He hires a local young ruffian, Colton Rivers, to help him "fix up" his deceased mother's storm-ravaged coastal home. As Luns begins to hang out at the local bar and befriend young Colton, how far into its unforgiving swamp will the Santee Delta lure Luns?