When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. After Geraldine is violently attacked on an Ojibwe reservation, her husband tries to find justice for her, as the family tries to help her heal.. The plot contains profanity and graphic violence, including rape.