Post the Kennedy administration when the desire for royalty still haunts the American psyche, David Goldman, the son of a psychopathic oil tycoon, goes to Alabama for the summer to visit his mother and her husband (a paranoid railroad baron). He befriends an eccentric delinquent (Freddie Fredrickson), gets into a pinch with a New Orleans mafia boss, and falls in love with the local butcher's daughter (Jacquelyn Woods). The love between David and Jacquelyn is tormented as David's inheritance, the town's hatred for Jacquelyn and her mysterious sadness conspire together to create a perfect storm.

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