The year is 1987, and outlaw Ray Diamond's mother Lorna is the queenpin of a cesspool of crime and perversion in Mystic, Georgia. When Ray is discharged from the Navy in San Diego, he absconds with a .45, planning to rob and drug deal his way east to his hometown. But when Ray arrogantly knocks over a mob-connected El Paso liquor store, he doesn't count on the owner's psychotic son Eli dogging his trail, and his life corkscrews deep into nightmare.