Welcome to Leith

Until the later months of 2013, the town of Leith in North Dakota, the land of which is three square miles, had 24 residents. It was a quiet and isolated rural area, a place where the town’s mayor, Ryan Schock, drove the school bus in the morning before tending to his farm. Six months later, we watch as Schlockleads a group of locals in tearing down and burning a neighbouring house, then teaches his wife how to fire a handgun in an empty field. The journey from serenity to paranoia is what d...