A Prayer for the Dying

A community is taking shape. In 1870, immigrants from Scandinavia settled in Wisconsin and named their settlement "Friendship". Everyone here knows Jacob Hansen. He's the sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, as well as a caring family man. But behind his energy and drive lies a trauma. Dusty red images show him wandering disoriented across the battlefields of the American Civil War. Unable to prevent death and violence back then, he now feels compelled to protect his new home – from a plague that's claiming an increasing number of lives, and from the forest fires that are inexorably closing in. With the camera rarely showing the horizon, the village seems entirely cut off from the outside world. Hansen once again faces a moral dilemma: can he maintain order in Friendship while retaining his humanity? A Western that poses timeless questions, and a far from traditional hero.