"The girl's gotta itch..."
A God-fearing farmer/blues singer Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) is conflicted when his wife leaves him for his brother. Meanwhile Rae (Christina Ricci) is the white-trash town tramp, whose boyfriend is serving in the army, and seeks solace anywhere she can! When she is left for dead after a beating outside Lazarus's property he takes her in and tries to teach her some discipline. By doing so they may both be able to get some redemption.
A film that suffers from disasterous marketing, that spun it as a sexual tale, when in fact it is a redemption story, told well. A modern take on the Southern Gothic.
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