1972. War protests and racial tension sizzle in the late summer heat of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Recent college grad Billy (Devon Bostick) spends the summer working on the grounds of an asylum run by his psychiatrist father (Tate Donovan). As Billy falls for Virginia (Natalia Dyer), a possibly crazy patient, his best friend Nigel (Marchant Davis) becomes involved with a radical civil rights activist (YG) against Tuscaloosa's power elite - including Billy's father.