Doug Butler is a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer with an offbeat passion — dog mushing.

When he risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of competing at the world championships in Alaska, Doug must confront the devastating realities facing family-owned farms in a corporate-owned world.

Meticulously captured over the course of a decade, UNDERDOG paints an enervating portrait of a local hero racing to put his curiously optimistic twist on American tragedy.