Against the backdrop of the late 90s Clinton scandal, the lives of Southern women are explored through the eyes of a young boy obsessed with an old fairy tale about a werewolf. His mother seeks to escape her claustrophobic life as housewife to a bitter husband and absent father; her elderly aunt is still coping with the death of her husband a year earlier; an independent young woman tries to comfort her fiancé, facing deployment to the front of the Balkan conflict; and a woman losing herself to early-onset Alzheimer's tries to finally set the record straight about the suicide of her husband decades earlier. But as the Georgia countryside begins to look more and more like a bygone wilderness, Southern manners, medieval chivalry & savagery, and Catholic superstition intersect to explore what is wild, what is civilized, and what is worth preserving, from one age to the next...