Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and 13-year-old son, Joe. One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked.
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