It's 1964 and twenty-two year old Violet Richards is in severe trouble. It was an act of self-defense against her white rapist, Huxley. But with the color of Violet's skin there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice, not in Jackson, Mississippi. With the help of her white beau, Dewey Leonard, she sneaks away and catches a Greyhound bus bound for Washington, D.C. Instead, desperation and fear causes her to wind up alone in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia... Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. After the project lawyer — and her baby's father — abandons her and flees to New York and news of Huxley's murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to marry another man she’s been casually dating. Two sisters on the run—one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's someone else they need to run from, a man with his own brand of secrets, someone with motives unknown to everyone but him...