17-year old Eli moves into the farm a person whose dark past threatens to punish him, of Waylon together with his family. While he becomes interested with the forests eli's family works to reestablish the fields. While to the plantation, Eli matches with the Amanda if she gives him an apple. She extracts a promise from him to avoid the heavy woods the next day. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night this promise violates and finds her own body dangling from a tree.