An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

With an absent father and a withdrawn and depressed mother, 17 year-old Ree Dolly keeps her family together in a dirt poor rural area. She s taken aback however when the local Sheriff tells her that her father put up their house as collateral for his bail and unless he shows up for his trial in a week s time, they will lose it all. She knows her father is involved in the local drug trade and manufactures crystal meth, but everywhere she goes the message is the same: stay out of it and stop poking your nose in other people s business. She refuses to listen, even after her father s brother, Teardrop, tells her he s probably been killed. She pushes on, putting her own life in danger, for the sake of her family until the truth, or enough of it, is revealed.

The main heroine of the picture - the girl Jessica from a broken family, her mother is seriously ill, and his father, a drug dealer in jail. In view of this situation the heroine and her younger brother and sister, barely making ends meet. Jessica soon learns of the disappearance of the newly freed his father, a local sheriff said the girl, that if in the near future that does not appear in court and did not pay the fee on the mortgage, then she and her family will select a house. Jessica goes in search of his father, who is rumored to have had to die in a car crash. In an attempt to get his girl have to go through are not the most affluent social strata, in which constantly hovered her father.

In Los Angeles, an ex-con (White) takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.