17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. With the reluctant help of her hard-bitten uncle Teardrop (John Hawkes) and her best friend Gail, Ree challenges her outlaw family's code of silence and risks her life in order to piece together the truth.