The Road of the Lonely Dog

South Dakota, dry summer of 1950. At night, a freight train races across the prairie, cutting through the darkness. In one of the cars hide two Lakota boys—Reuben and Levi. They ran away from home and now flee a government agent whose job is to take Reuben to an Indian boarding school.

Chance brings them to the Steinbach couple, and after receiving help from them, Reuben and Levi decide to cross the endless plains and reach the quarries in western Minnesota. There they hope to find stone for a new sacred pipe of their great-grandfather: a family relic the Lone Dogs kept and passed down from generation to generation—the very agent who was chasing them had cruelly destroyed it.

They face a long journey—anxious and dangerous. But it’s on the road that the boys will see the world more broadly and start to understand what matters most: how the land shapes the fates of those who live on it, love, dream, and die.

What begins as an escape and a chase gradually turns into a many-layered drama of intertwined lives, where each person will have to open their heart, learn to forgive—and, in the end, find their home.