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Brownsburg, Virginia, 1948. A peaceful little town of neatly aligned houses, where neighbors live in the fear of God and the respect of propriety, sipping iced tea on their porches in the evening. Then a stranger arrives. Behind the wheel of a battered old pickup, Charlie Beale soon wins the affection of a young boy, and then the love of a married woman. Passion has entered Brownsburg, sweeping away whatever innocence and purity remained.