Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.

An unemployed man opens a Church to live from the tithes. A teenager sells her body to buy the things her mother cannot buy for her. A young girl, sexually abused by her father, cannot accept he has moved out. A bitter man finds a purpose for his empty life in his best friend's wife. An Eastern European immigrant pushes his wife to work in a strip club to pay his debts. Five interlocked stories offer a provocative vision of the Ten Commandments and how nowadays, many people have to break them in order to survive.