Deputy: Once Upon A Time in Mississippi is Southern Gothic literature, a complex tale of Michael Parker, a young deputy sheriff in Mississippi, who lives on the bleeding edge and encounters flawed but fascinating characters and wrestles with mystery, murder, mobsters, bombings, seduction, and the supernatural. The story plays out with the grand stage and social order of 1970 as backdrop, explores race relations and redemption, and narrows divides in a world where no one is what they seem and everyone is for sale.