Late summer in North Dakota 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property
bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he
realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich the deceased boy was best friends
with Landreaux's five-year-old son LaRose. The two families have been close for years and
their children played together despite going to different schools. Landreaux is horrified at
what he's done fighting off his longstanding alcoholism he ensconces himself in a sweat lodge
and prays for guidance. And there he discovers an old way of delivering justice for the wrong
he's done. The next day he and his wife Emmaline deliver LaRose to the bereaved Ravich parents.
Standing on the threshold of the Ravich home they say 'Our son will be your son now'. LaRose
is quickly absorbed into his new family. Gradually he's allowed visits with his birth family
whose grief for the son and brother they gave away mirrors that of the Raviches. The years pass
and LaRose becomes the linchpin that links both families. As the Irons and the Raviches grow
ever more entwined their pain begins to subside. But when a man who nurses a grudge against
Landreaux fixates on the idea that there was a cover-up the day Landreaux killed Dusty - and
decides to expose this secret - he threatens the fragile peace between the two families...
