LaRose

North Dakota, 1999.  Landreaux Iron accidentally shoots and kills five-year-old Dusty Ravich, the son of his neighbors. The two families have always been close; Dusty was best friends with Landreaux’s son LaRose. Horrified, Landreaux turns to tradition—prayer in an Ojibwe sweat lodge—for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of atonement, he and his wife will give LaRose to the grieving Ravich family. “Our son will be your son now,” they say.

As the years pass, L…