A woman struck by lightning as a teenager gained the ability to locate the dead and see how they died; traveling with her skeptical stepbrother, she is hired to find a missing girl in a tight-knit Southern community and to investigate a string of suspicious deaths. As they follow clues through church politics, buried family secrets and local superstitions, their inquiry provokes hostility and danger, forcing them to confront both human cruelty and unexpected truths about the girl’s disappearance and the town’s hidden past.