North Dakota oil business is spawning 'man camps,' shantytowns full of men hired to work on the rigs, in towns without enough housing. In such twilight spaces, it's easy for a person to vanish. And when two young men in their first year on the job disappear without a trace, only their mothers believe there's hope of finding them. Despite reassurances that the police are on the case, the two women think the oil company is covering up the disappearances; and maybe something more.
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