A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who´s reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture they recognise from the paper . . . Flannery O´Connor´s famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.