To Kill a Wolf is a 2025 Oregon wilderness drama that retells Little Red Riding Hood as a quiet study of trauma and redemption. A social outcast finds a teenage runaway and tries to help her home, with the wolf-as-predator allegory pointing toward family rupture and implied abuse within a fractured custodial bond. The film carries a Leans Traditional label primarily because its story stays personal rather than ideological. No LGBTQ or trans themes appear. The cast is uniformly white in an intimate two-hander format. Politics are absent entirely. The result is a psychologically inward drama whose values sit closer to private healing and quiet moral duty than to any progressive social framework.