Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980. Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth, leaving her to hold her siblings together and stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness. When a few acts of kindness help ease the Fosters' hardships, Austin finds herself relying on some of Magnolia's most colorful citizens for friendship. Just when it seems she might have something more waiting for her - with the son of a wealthy local family who she's crushed on for years - her father makes a choice that will crack wide-open the family's secrets. There are consequences for loving a boy like Vance Cumberland, but there is also freedom in the truth.