In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.