Winter is approaching fast in the windswept plains along the Canada/US border; the landscape is bleak, but the prospects of the people living there, even more so. Dave returns home for the first time since he left as a teenager and finds his family in disarray; the Mathises, once reigning over all criminal aspects of the area, have begun to lose their grip. Palmer, the patriarch, has only gotten more bloodthirsty in his old age, an influence that has begun to rub off on Dave's brother, Jed. It seems that the more the Mathises try to manage their own affairs, the stronger things spin out of control. Soon nearly everyone in town is drawn into the mess, from morally bankrupt cops, to teenagers, to Dave himself. Loyalties and grudges, left to fester, underpin every decision. Family binds together, then wrenches apart- and Dave, not quite a local but not a stranger, cannot fully cleave himself from it all. He will try- and the results will leave no one untouched.
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