"Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women suddenly appear out of the mist one afternoon in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River...As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, the premonitions of Poppy, the psychic madam of the local brothel, begin to foretell a deep unhappiness for all involved. And when a flood threatens the livelihood of the entire town, the frightening...