About racial prejudice and emotional unrest in 1940s Georgia. Henry Warren is an unscrupulous and racist landowner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. Blocking his path are sharecroppers Rod McDowell and Reeve Scott, one white and one black.

In Resting place, a neighbor, residing in patriotic but racially divided Georgia, helps a young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place for their son, an army officer whose mysterious death is under investigation. In The terror, a young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly baron where he discovers that she is the pawn of an old witch bent on driving the baron to suicide.