The spine-tingling true story of a newlywed FBI poster boy who is sent to work in a small community in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. When he gets there, he finds himself attracted into an illicit affair with a poor local woman, who ends up becoming his most reliable source of information. She sees in him a way out of her predicament, but in reality, it is just a one-way trip to calamity for the two of them.