In a series of linked stories, the family takes on an organization of
white occultists, and no kindly Caucasian comes forward to help them; they fight this battle on their own.
There is battered wife Valerie Barksdale (Hilary Swank), whose philandering,
white - trash husband Donnie (Reeves) believes that the womanly concern Annie shows for Valerie is the start of an
occultist brainwash; the bipolar Buddy Cole (Giovanni Ribisi), whose death wish ping - pongs between himself and acquaintances; and, eventually, the loved ones of the missing and presumed - dead Jessica King (Holmes).