Little Woods

For years, Ollie has helped the struggling residents of Little Woods, North Dakota, to gain access to Canadian healthcare: smuggling in their medications, sneaking people across the border for procedures and profiting from drug trafficking on the side. After she is caught and put on probation, she plans to go legitimate but is driven back into the underbelly of their oil boomtown by mounting bills, life’s pressures and her own sister, Deb.

Nia DaCosta’s small-town thriller weaves themes of economic downturn and the opioid crisis into its intimate story of two sisters trying to get by.

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