Off-grid musician and former Dream Syndicate and Opal member Kendra Smith contributed the original song 'Moon Boat' (her first solo recording since 1996), which plays over the end credits. This is his second collaboration with Granik, after Winter's Bone. Soundtrack ĭickon Hinchliffe, formerly of Tindersticks, composed the film score, released digitally by Lakeshore Records. Eagle Fern Park in Clackamas County was used for the main forest scenes. Principal photography took place during the spring of 2017 in Portland, Oregon. The film was directed by Debra Granik and written by Granik and Anne Rosellini, based on the 2009 novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock. Isaiah Stone as Isaiah, a person whom Tom befriends.Derek John Drescher as Larry, a man with whom Will exchanges medications for money.Michael Prosser as James, Will's social worker.

Dana Millican as Jean Bauer, Tom's social worker.

Dale Dickey as Dale, the owner of the trailer park.

Thomasin McKenzie as Tom, Will's daughter.

Ben Foster as Will, a military veteran suffering from PTSD.

Later, Tom hangs a food package in the forest for Will to find. Tom returns to the trailer community, and Will returns to the woods. After leaving the RV community, Tom stops and says to Will, 'I know you would stay if you could'. Tom protests, telling him 'the same thing that's wrong with you isn't wrong with me'.

Tom likes their new home and tries to make a rental agreement with Dale, the trailer's owner, without telling Will. The medic also suffers from PTSD and lends his service dog to help Will with his nightmares. Will and Tom are given an empty trailer in the community while Will's injuries heal. Dale, a local woman, calls a friend who is a former Army medic to treat Will's injury. Tom refuses to let Will be taken to a hospital. She gets help from local quadbikers, who take them to their mobile home community. The next morning, Tom discovers him unconscious at the bottom of a ravine with a seriously injured foot. Will leaves to find food but does not return. The next day they discover a vacant cabin and move in. Cold and darkness force them to build a temporary forest survival shelter for the night. Will and Tom try to travel in a railroad boxcar but eventually catch a ride with a trucker who takes them to Washington state and drops them off, in a remote forest area. They return to their camp in the park, but find it has been destroyed. One morning Will suddenly decides to leave. Social services continue to check on them and require constant form filling. Tom meets a local boy who is building his own tiny house, and he introduces her to the local 4H youth club. Will begrudgingly begins work packaging trees, but is bothered by the helicopters used to move them. They are found a house to live in on a Christmas tree farm in rural Oregon in exchange for Will's work on the farm. They are assessed and Tom is found to be educationally advanced for her age despite not attending school. Will makes their money by selling his VA-issued benzodiazepines to other veterans.Īfter Tom is spotted in the woods by a jogger, they are arrested by park rangers and detained by social services.

They live in isolation, using forest survival skills and only entering the town occasionally for food and supplies. Will, an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD, lives with his 13-year-old daughter, Tom, in the old growth Forest Park near Portland, Oregon.

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