Sheriff Cletus Haley knows that nothing unusual ever happens in his little town of Harmony until that fateful morning in 1937 when unusual things begin to happen.
A series of thefts begins to unnerve the town and frustrate the sheriff. But when a tin of arsenic powder is stolen from the towns doctor, Sheriff Haley realizes that much more might be at stake. And after the hooligan son of the towns most prominent family suddenly disappears, Sheriff Haley must figure out exactly what is going on in his town before the forces of man and nature come together to rend it asunder.