Stanley is a sugarcane farmer in Englewood, Florida. He and other residents live around the ancient Indian Mounds in town and are afflicted by their presence. The town morally erodes and its townspeople succumb to disastrous indulgences. Stanley's friends and his son's (Chip) friends work together with local authorities to clean it up. The meaning and purpose of The Mounds are discovered by the town, the townspeople rally and restore wealth and power to those wrongfully plighted.