A blast from the past returns to a small town just beginning to emerge from its own shadow.

It’s the archetypal struggle of so many small Southern towns—how to move on, and what to keep from the wreckage of its past: New company finds an opening that coincidentally allows its CEO to emerge from his own dark place; small town quietly resents and yet accepts its possible salvation.

It’s a place where Ranse Moore, whose family historically gave the town its name, has discovered the meaning of penance and hubris and has come to realize he’s done all he can and has to move on, too.

And Sara, a “local celebrity”, an artist and teacher raising a teenaged daughter on her own, recognizes that not all “bombs” are real, that some do their damage and clear a new way forward. For her, the hardest part of dealing with the destruction will be figuring out if she can let go of the men in her life who have controlled decisions she has to make on her own.