For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark -
set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly
peaceful fashion in empty urban
wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.