Makeup disguises a fractured eye, as she prepares to board a train home. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, she came to consciousness in a hotel room with her ex-boyfriend choking her and kicking her in the groin. She moved to Williston with her boyfriend less than three weeks prior to seek work.
A bit welder smokes a cigarette at his home in Williston. During the summer of 2013, there was a sever housing shortage and housing prices had dramatically risen since the boom began.
"As long as the boom ain't over and I ain't in prison, both are distinct possibilities make no mistake, I'll be out here,†Mark said. Mark has been living in Williston and working in the oil field for over three years.
April holds a bird that she was nursing back to life. “And I thought I was the only one. I felt like I was the only one," she said ofher domestic violent relationship. April lived in rural North Dakota with her abusive husband. It would take the cops over an hour torespond to her calls.
“Should I have shot him? Tell me. What would have happened if I shot him?†Laura asked the police officer who was filling a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend.
A mother of four speaks to police officers about the restraining order her husband placed on her. She had not seen her children in over a week, which is the longest she has been away from her children.
A daughter moves out of the shelter with her mother and three siblings. During the time her family stayed at the shelter, her mother was demoted at her job because her boss that her personal life got in theway of her job.