After tragedy strikes and he loses his mother to cancer, young Benjamin Riley is left in a hard place that would be the downfall of most boys his age.His father is sick and has been drinking, drinking a lot. With the bank taking their house and car, the two hit bottom and begin a long, slow walk out along the one-lane gravel road leading west to a shack along a dry river in Kern County, where Riley will be forced to steal from a local store and investigate...