Chester Holly is raised in a rusted out mobile home just outside of Gardenia's garbage dump's gates. His dream is to escape his life and become a private eye with a prestigious detective agency in California. Fate lets him, a lily white skinned guy, meet a tuxedo black skinned girl named Keesha and fall in love. His red necked, prejudiced family belongs to the Klan and his love affair costs his stepfather his chance to advance in the Klan's social order. Keesha disappears and Chester thinks she has left him over something stupid he pulled. For three years he waits for her to call or return to him while voices cry in the night. Chester Holly discovers his community's secret. They eat, sleep, and exist just feet away from padlocked gates to Hell.