After William's wife dies along with her infant son in a childbirth complication, he struggles to be a good father to his two young daughters. Grief is an everyday part of William's reality and it leads him to question his faith. One day he learns that the strange barking he heard the night before was actually the sound of dogs and their owner being brutally killed. After seeing a couple of men from town acting strangely in the tavern, William has a suspicion of who the murder is, but no way to prove it. He unsuccessfully tries to bring the killer to justice by speaking with the local sheriff before finding an unlikely ally in Reverend Mark Brown. William and Mark hatch a plan to get the murderers to confess. After digging up the dead man's body and hiding it, William plants a story that the dead man had gold teeth. William knows this will attract the murderers and cause them to dig up the body to steal the teeth. William and Mark hide out in the forest one night and wait for the murderers to come and dig up the grave. After being frustrated to have spent so much time digging only to find no body, the murderers admit to killing the man (thinking no one is around to hear them).