Henry Lawton is a young man in 1930's Mississippi. He works for his father in the family moonshining business and is one of the best bootleggers around. He is secretly in love with the granddaughter of a woman the locals consider a true-to-life witch. So he has plenty to keep him busy. But, when a relentless federal agent enlists the aid of the corrupt local sheriff, things take a turn for the worse. Lives and families are destroyed. As the death toll mounts and the situation grows dire, perhaps the only thing that can fight man's evil is the supernatural. When the spirit of the trees walks free, evil runs in fear.