Nora, an exchange student from Australia, is out photographing the fall splendor of rural North Carolina when she becomes lost. Then her car stalls. A mysterious woman, Effie, offers to help, so Nora follows her to a remote cabin. But there is no phone. Instead of calling for a two truck, Effie tells Nora stories about a blues musician turned moonshiner, but Effie’s stories turn out to be more than simple folk tales.