Cop saves girl and dies his squad car is auctioned

John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.

Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.

As a result of the scrape, a young guy and his younger brother are trying to get rid of a corpse in the trunk of their bright Audi, but a pesky policeman who has lagged behind his unit is about to bring the "lucky ones" to the surface.