With his clients dispersed in the towns of western Montana, social worker Pete Snow struggles against a lack of professional resources, his crumbling personal life, and a culture that finds solace in the bottom of a bottle. After encountering Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, eleven-year-old boy who lives in the backwoods, Pete comes face to face with his own opposite in the boy's father, Jeremiah: a profoundly disturbed and paranoid survivalist who is itching for a final conflict.

Unabridged. Compact discs.