Ronny Pham is the youngest of four children in a Vietnamese immigrant family in southern Mississippi, working as shrimpers out of a small port at Bayou Caddy .
Amidst long standing racial hatred and violence, they are subject to taunting and intimidation, living in constant fear of burning crosses and lynching.
Not only is Ronny bullied at school, but he and his white girlfriend Paige McArthur become targets of extreme violence.
Ronny is murdered and Paige, who survives a vici.