A celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra loses his post during the Soviet regime when he refuses to fire his Jewish musicians. While working at the same theatre he intercepts an invitation and bluffs his way to a comeback by doing the concert meant for the official orchestra and rounds up his old orchestra buddies.

17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.