A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

故事发生在宾夕法尼亚的Banshee镇，曾经坐过牢的诈骗巨匠兼飞天悍贼lucas（安东尼·斯塔尔 Antony Starr 饰）拿到了Banshee警长的身份，取代他成为了本地执法者。在小镇服役时候最长的警官Brock（马特·索维托 Matt Servitto 饰）本有进展成为警长，而lucas的到来威胁到他的地位。lucas发现他过去的情人Carrie（伊万娜·米利塞维奇 Ivana Milicevic 饰）改名生涯在小镇，并嫁给了本地审查官。一方面，lucas用他新的合法身份继续秘密地犯罪，另一方面，奸人冷血无情的乌克兰黑帮成员兔子师长（本·克劳斯 Ben Cross 饰），15年来一直在追踪lucas和Carrie的下落。然则一切都在lucas进入Banshee镇后变得不一样起来......

As prodigal elder son Nate Fisher returns home for the holidays to news of his father's death, the family must learn to deal with the death of one of their own—while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of living.