Within the household they share with their mother and uncle in rural North Carolina, Jan, wound mentally taut as trap, and his retarded sister, Timmie, form a strange but mutually protective partnership. Both children, wise with intimations beyond the shallow comprehension of their elders, are visited with a forebodding sense of fatality.
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