1947 - In the Lowcountry swamps of South Carolina, Chloe Mason knows not to go near the Negroes who live in the river shacks, especially sixteen-year-old Big Jim.
She secretly befriends Bi.
Yet, when Chloe falls into Foxhole Swamp, it\'s Big Jim who saves her from an alligator.
At least that\'s what Chloe\'s brother, Caleb, and her Pa, a fiddle-playing Southerner who waves a Confederate flag, tell her.
He\'s something of a myth, a big black boy known for eating opossums and howling at the moon. 1947 - In the Lowcountry swamps of South Carolina, Chloe Mason knows not to go near the Negroes who live in the river shacks, especially sixteen-year-old Big Jim