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The year is 1934, the setting the Oklahoma dustbowl. In short order,
Ben Hawkins (In the Bedroom's Nick Stahl) loses his mother and his home. He's
poor, he's alone--he needs a job. So he joins Samson's carnival, en route to the
West. Hawkins, naturally, is the good guy. Waiting for him in California is the
not so good Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown, The Shawshank
Redemption), a fire and brimstone preacher with supernatural powers and a
fiercely loyal sister (Amy Madigan). Hawkins, as it turns out, has similar
powers....
It features one of television's most
colorful casts of characters. They include Sophie (Clea DuVall), who reads
fortunes--with her comatose mother's assistance, the vaguely sinister Lodz
(Patrick Bauchau), blind absinthe-drinker and mentalist (he can see both the
future and the past) and Ruthie (Adrienne Barbeau), snake charmer, strongman's
mother and all-around maternal figure.
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