The series the lives of three siblings in rural Lousiana: Nova Bordelon, and formidable journalist and activist from New Orleans; Charley Bordelon, a working wife and in Los Angeles; and their brother Ralph Angel Bordelon, a single parent struggling with unemployment and raising his son alone. Their father has recently died and unexpectedly bequeathed an 800-acre sugarcane farm in equal proportion to each of his three children in Louisiana