It's 1957 in Winoretta, Georgia, two chiggers north of Atlanta in the racially divided south. Dixie Lee Mason's family has lost a war against an army of carpenter ants, which has literally eaten them out of house and home, and they are living in the yard. Now the Mason's dilemma rises like a nasty bug bite: how to destroy their condemned ant house without violating those pestilential town arson laws? Dixie watches Daddy's mind become unglued in deranged,...