The movie takes place in St. Martinville, Louisiana in the mid of December just before Christmas. However, it was obviously shot in the mid of summer, and production didn't even try to hide it with artificial snow. Everything is full of green deciduous trees, bushes, and flowers. You can hear loud bird singing in day time, and really loud cricket singing in the evening and night. In reality, birds don't sing in the autumn and winter, crickets are dead by December, and St. Martinville is not green in December and it actually snows in December in St. Martinville.
Toward the end of the film Katherine has a cell phone call then puts her phone in the left pocket of her blazer. In later scenes it is no longer there.