Incest, murder, adultery, neo-nazi white supremacists, brilliant professors, green agriculture, corrupt police, corrupt preachers, ugly right wing conservatism, gross ignorance, wild women, liquor end up rednecks -Decades ago the Ku Klux Klan placed a large cross on an Ozark cliff known as Adam's Needle. When the Klan leaves, no one thinks to takes the cross down. A Jewish couple, Sarah and George Klein, buy their dream farm nearby but fail to notice the cross until it's too late. Sarah gets a niggling feeling, but George calms her fears by reminding her that the close town of Pecan Grove is a nice Christian community filled with good, kind people. Little does he know that an unscrupulous preacher has arrived, or that he and Sarah's very lives may well depend on the cleverness of an abused neighbor child.