It's Saturday night in Hattiesville, Mississippi, and the whole town turns out to attend the biggest event of the year, the high school musical. But the evening is filled with more than singing and dancing. Threats and accusations are thrown around like penny candy. And when one of the town's residents is found dead the next morning, the chaos of that night comes into question.

The trouble starts months earlier with a boy and his confession. At least that's what busybody Ora Collins thinks. So, when a detective knocks on her door Sunday morning and makes her miss church, she's eager to spill the beans about that and plenty of others' dirty little secrets. Except her own, of course.

But where does she begin? There isn't a soul in town who isn't hiding something. The question is, whose secret is the most deadly.