Tookie, an Ojibwe woman with a troubled past, endeavors to settle into a mundane life after serving a lengthy prison sentence. Her respite is found amidst the stacks of a quirky Minneapolis bookshop where she becomes entangled in the lives of her fellow eccentric booksellers and literati. Yet the quaint shop becomes the stage for otherworldly concerns when the spirit of Flora, the store's most vexatious patron, refuses to part with the living world following her death on All Souls' Day. As Flora's haunting grows increasingly insistent, Tookie is driven to unravel the mysterious ties between the ghost and her own past, all while grappling with personal and collective turmoils—a viral pandemic, societal unrest, and the exploration of ancestral narratives. 'The Sentence' crafts a yearlong journey from All Souls' Day to All Souls' Day, where Tookie confronts the weight of historical injustices and searches for redemption amidst a tapestry of ghostly folklore and a city in upheaval.