A documentary about North Dakotas fracking boom turns into a revelatary examination of a flawed individual
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Jesse Mosss tough, absorbing documentary could almost be a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, all about the US oil industrys fracking boom in North Dakota. A local pastor, Jay Reinke, has set up a programme to let homeless transient workers sleep in his church and even his house. These men, from all over the US, have been lured to the area by the mostly illusory promise of plentiful jobs and easy money in the oil business. Driven by constant stories in the local press about criminals and sex offenders among these men, Reinke is under intense pressure to abandon the scheme. What would Jesus do?