Nestled among the courthouse square storefronts of Zebulon, Georgia sits Bonnie Mac's Cafe, the only eatery in town. While the cafe serves most everyone in Pike County, its regular patrons include a chain-smoking local family heiress, a self-procaimed womanizer, a gruff, whiskey drinking mechanic, and a chatty, gossip-spreading postman. Known for her grease-laden Southern cooking and Blue Plate specials, owner Bonnie MacGregor lives a busy but solitary existence. That all changes one stormy night in the spring of 1957 when Bonnie finds a tattered, cross-eyed, mute little girl abandoned in the cafe. Bonnie's regulars become the stray Gracie's family as she navigates life's challenges alongside her stuttering sidekick Charlie Callahan, who resides in the nearby children's home. No one is prepared, however, for the havoc and torment that Beau Loosier, the town's spoiled , rich bully, will rain upon all of them.