Ron "Stray Dog" Hall lives in Southern Missouri where he owns and operates the At Ease RV Park. After years of living alone with his dogs, he is adjusting to life with his wife, Alicia, who is newly arrived from Mexico. Anchored by his small dogs and big bikes, Stray Dog seeks to strike a balance between his commitment to his family, neighbors, biker brotherhood, and fellow veterans. As part of the legacy of fighting in the Vietnam War, he wrestles with the everlasting puzzle of conscience, remorse, and forgiveness.

With Stray Dog as our guide, we experience the restlessness of ex-warriors as he tries to make peace with what he can't change and weathers the incomprehension of those who have never been to war. Stray Dog navigates the pressures of everyday life including the economic survival of his grandchildren and the increasing poverty of his community. The arrival of Alicia's twin sons from Mexico throws into harsh relief the current state of opportunity that newcomers seek and that America can or cannot offer.

Stray Dog continues to tally the cost of war, bearing witness to the soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan: both the dead and the living. The questions of contemporary American life loom larger and thornier, leaving us to wonder what is next for Stray Dog and his blended, multi-ethnic family.

"Valuable in many ways—as the sympathetic documentation of a family's perseverance in hard times; as an example of compassionate cinema verite; as a chance to spend time with some very interesting people—but perhaps its greatest virtue lies in its powerful, implicit challenge to the lazy habit of looking at American life through polarized red- and blue-tinted lenses." —The New York Times

"Novelistic in its depth and breathtaking in its humanity." —Vulture

"A stirring, surprising, empathic portrait of a Harley-riding trailer-court king." —Village Voice

"Director Debra Granik provides plenty of surprises in her superb slice of American life on the margins... In an era when many coastal Americans' ideas of the heartland poor come from hicksploitation TV series, STRAY DOG provides a very welcome corrective." —Variety

"Sympathetic without being sentimental or condescending, STRAY DOG is an enormously touching, understated look at an aging Vietnam veteran still wrestling with the invisible scars of a war that took place some 40 years ago... Touches on family, faith, love and survival with an effortless grace." —Screen International

"A remarkable portrait not only of this particular man, but of a culture in a transitioning moment. As we welcome home even more generations of traumatized soldiers, it's the Vietnam vets that we have to look to to understand how this will affect these men and women down the road." —IndieWire

"In its quiet, verite way, STRAY DOG ponders some of the major issues in American life... It's a film that starts as a character study and builds into something much larger." —A.V. Club

"The director Debra Granik has a gift for cinematic spaces that are vibrantly, palpably alive, and for putting you in places, whether modest homes or the great outdoors, that make you feel as if you’re standing right alongside her characters." —Manohla Dargis, Film Critic