On a sweltering Mississippi farm in 1963, five women gather for what should be another summer of porch talk and pickling. But when fourteen-year-old Ann begins to unravel the secrets buried in the land-lynchings, silence, betrayal-she finds kinship not in her own bloodline, but in Irene, the quiet housekeeper who raised her like a daughter.
As bees grow restless and old ghosts stir beneath the soil, Ann uncovers a fire inside her that demands to be fed. What begins as a visit becomes a reckoning, and what stands at the end is not just a girl-but a woman who knows what must burn to keep what matters alive.