After her marriage with a man named Riley falls apart, due to his cheating, a woman moves to a trailer in a small Wyoming town. While caught up in her own troubles, she observes another woman who lives in the trailer park named Josanna, who also seems on her way to self-destruction. Josanna cooks at the Wig-Wag where the woman waitresses a few nights a week, a restaurant owned by a Japanese man who is notoriously difficult to work for. On weekends Josanna goes with her two girlfriends, Palma and Ruth, and they drank, smoked, and messed with men until the early hours. All three women had been married in abusive relationships before, and they’d gained reputations for being bold and mean. This characteristic attracts a man named Elk Nelson, who Josanna found a personal ad for in the newspaper and went crazy for. While she obsessed over him, it was clear that he couldn’t care less about her, and they often fought over his straying attention. One night at the bar the woman works at, Elk and Palma get there early and start flirting heavily with each other. Josanna storms in soaking wet and angry, having just been fired from the Wig-Wag and crashed her car. Elk, Palma, Ruth, and Josanna all leave the bar to drive to one in a different town, all in various states of intoxication. When they were driving down, a pickup truck swerved in front of Elk and made him rear-end a trailer full of calves. He got so angry that he chased down the pickup and steered him into a ditch. The calf trailer driver also pulled over next to them, got out with a gun, and started shooting. In the ensuing shoot-out, the calf trailer driver was shot through the throat but survived, and both Elk and Josanna were dead. The woman believes that Josanna saw her chance to end it for her and Elk and took it.