When Agnes Hopper travels to Beulah Cemetery to inform her late husband, Charlie, of the dire financial pickle she's in, she discovers the shoeless and quite dead body of Charlie's best friend laid out on a concrete bench. Despite the indifference of the local sheriff, Agnes' nose for trouble smells something foul and she vows she won't rest her aching knees until Josiah Goforth can rest in peace. But as she and her sometimes-love-interest, Smiley...