The dark, stagnant water of the Black Mingo Swamp holds many secrets, some of them evil. When young sharecropper boys stumble onto a treasure that the swamp had hidden for over a century, their lives are catastrophically changed. One loses his arm, one loses hope, and both lose their parents. One will blame a curse while the other counts his blessings. The Curse of the Black Mingo tells a gripping tale that follows these two boys as they are plucked by tragic circumstances from their sharecropper existence and thrust into the high society of Charleston, South Carolina in 1911.