Jonah Hargrove is celebrating his 13th birthday by avoiding his abusive father, when a girl named River stumbles into his yard, injured and alone. the teenager has stolen thousands of dollars worth of meth from her murderous, drug dealing boyfriend, but lost it somewhere in the Ameche’s River bottoms during her escape. Jonah agrees to help her find it and sell the drugs so she can flee East Texas. Chasing them is John Curtis, local drug kingpin and dog fighter as well as Rivers boyfriend l, the dangerous Dakota Cade. Each person is keeping secrets from the others- deadly secrets that will be exposed in violent fashion as all are forced to come to terms with their choices, there circumstances, and their own definition of God.