It's the 1940's. Deep South. Racial tension at a boiling point. When a nobody named Jenny discovers an abandoned baby boy lying in the bathtub of a broken down motel, she decides to raise the orphan secretly in the small, segregated town of Doraville. But, as the child grows, Jenny discovers there is something strange about Gideon--he is endowed with supernatural powers, powers that threaten to shake their world to its core and expose her precious child to a world brimming with hate...
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