Rush Cousin's search for his roots leads him to Ashland Plantation, an elegant, decaying estate deep in the Mississippi Delta. After landing a job on the plantation as a handyman, Rush finds himself getting closer to Ashland's long-buried secrets -- and Annabelle Ames, the plantation's beautiful, embittered mistress, who has a lonely obsession with the past which strangely seems to mirror his own. Can Rush uncover the truth but keep his passion for Annabelle at bay?