The Deep South during the Great Depression: Tressie lives with her family and they do everything they can to survive – including making moonshine illegally to make ends meet financially. Unfortunately, the FBI is on their trail, and even worse, Tressie begins to have feelings for the FBI agent who is trying to put her family in jail. What does she choose to love and honor? Her heart or her family? Come on down to 54 Below to support new works and lend your ears to the first public concert of this brave, exciting modern folktale.