Life is dysfunction and nihilistic until we ground it in the Divine. Ickapoo has to find meaning in a relation to the Divine.
Basically, during an unusually hot summer in the month of August, in rural Osage County outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, once-noted alcoholic poet Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard) is looking for a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and quarrelsome wife Violet (Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Meryl Streep) who is suffering from mouth cancer, going through chemotherapy and addicted to narcotics. Shortly after young native American woman Johnna Monevata (Misty Upham) is chosen by him, Beverly disappears, and after five days he is found drowned, he took his boat out onto the lake and committed suicide, Violet identifies the body and has to make funeral arrangemen
