Suzy Jennings is nine years old. The year is 1957. While playing in a dry creek bed on the back acres of her parents farm, she overhears an argument between two men. Frightened she keeps this knowledge to herself with deadly circumstances. Clyde and Lorna Jennings has a secret. A secret that they have protected for twenty-five years. When their way of life and family is threatened by exposer Clyde swears he will do anything to protect his family. But murder? When events take a turn. Inhabitants of the hollow take care of their own.