Sam Lykins, a middle-aged farmer fighting to escape the clutches of alcoholism, has made an annual ritual of revisiting the scene of a terrible tragedy he experienced as a young child. The struggle is greater than ever, as he makes his journey in the midst of withdrawal, running on fumes of necessity, with his dog at his side. The encounter, marking the thirty-sixth anniversary of the life-changing moment, will force him to confront the past in a way he never could've imagined. Deeply inspired by American literature of the twentieth century, Wolf School Road is an expedition through the deepest recesses of the human heart, and the search for seeming impossibility in the form of acceptance and redemption.