


They’re living off the grid, but why? There aren’t zombies out there, or a dystopian, post-apocalyptic army. Whenever someone as innocuous as a hiker comes close, Will has drilled Tom to hide immediately, without stirring so much as one of the fern fronds that surround them. They’re being hunted, at least in Will’s mind, by the entirety of the workaday world beyond the edges of those woods. In a way, they are - but they’re not being hunted by predators or police.

As you watch Will (Ben Foster) and his 13-year-old daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) slink with animal stealth through the dripping, emerald lushness of a Pacific Northwest forest, you can’t help wondering if they’re on the run.
