Set in a tiny northern Minnesota town, Love Letter to Leader follows the filmmaker's extended farm family from its immigrant beginnings, focusing on choices to leave this once-prosperous place, alongside decisions to stay. The film is prescient in its exploration of a community dedicated to living on and from its own resources while also revealing historical and present-day social, political and economic pressures on rural people. Defined by its very ambiguity, Love Letter to Leader never preaches but encourages audiences to draw their own conclusions about intriguing, future-looking relationships communities are forging with the natural environment. Likewise the film personifies diversity without sermonizing, revealing Leader’s broadly ethnic immigrant past while subtly calling attention to the traditions of Original People who have always been at its heart. Against the backdrop of its own rich history, the people of Leader, Minnesota are reinventing a way of life that is slower, greener, and wholeheartedly committed to attentively living on the land. The film's soundtrack is composed of an innovative medley of folk music performed by contemporary musicians – with the filmmaker on accordion – from several ethnicities and cultures including Eastern and Central European, Scandinavian, and Ojibwa, interwoven with historic performances from celebrated Alan Lomax recording sessions.