Winter's Bone (2006)

Ree Dolly must find her missing father or risk losing the family's home, which he has pledged as security. In Woodrell's Ozarks, an inquiry means travelling through kinship territory where asking the wrong relative carries a cost. The landscape offers shelter, scarcity and enforced dependence, not a picturesque escape. Choose it for a short, hard-edged civilian search in which property and the limits of safe movement determine what the investigator can risk.