When a flamboyant New York City artist returns to the sleepy, God-fearing Alabama town of her birth to conduct an artistic experiment, the resulting uproar splits the community and causes fourteen-year-old Charity to question many things that she had previously taken for granted.Charity is torn between her preacher father, a powerful man who has driven away her mother, alienated her sister, and controls the town, and unconventional artist Adrienne Dabney, who has returned home to conduct an artistic experiment