Dust and Mercy

Set in a 1959 Appalachian valley, Dust and Mercy follows Eli McKinnon, a third-generation farmer whose quiet stewardship of inherited land is disrupted when a boundary dispute and the roadside beating of an itinerant laborer named Lester Combs force his tight-knit community into a reckoning. The valley's response to both crises reveals the distance between the Christian neighborliness its inhabita...