A middle-aged man and his wife struggle to fight the cold, care for their kids, and maintain their marriage as they build a house on a ranch in Washington state during several years filled with set backs and heartache.

A boy learns from his father’s best friend the history of his family and the value of man’s relationship with nature, but is interrupted by his father’s death and his mother’s sudden arrival.

A ranching family stays optimistic during tough times by remembers their good luck last summer when they persuaded a generous rancher to work on his farm.

An investigator stays in a family home in order to become acquainted with the family and all their intricacies while he investigates the case of family's adult son, who has threatens to kill the president of the United States to spare the lives of those involved in Vietnam.

A daughter is left to be raised by her grandparents after her teen mom disappears, only to find herself in her senior year, pregnant and forced to leave her child with her grandparents as she joins the army.

In 1999, a Wyoming ranch owner estranged from his ex-wife, sons, and grandchildren deliberates over what to do with his property when he dies.

A young daughter muses about her lovely life on a cow farm, despite encountering some unsettling moments on the farm grounds.

A girl raised on a farm by a strict Christian mother decides to indulge in her curiously and approaches a young farmhand, despite her mother's warnings that all men are sinful.

A fat cowgirl who works on her father's ranch discovers a sentient, broken-down tractor, who begs her to revive him. After she forgets about the tractor and finally finds love, the tractor becomes the center of a terrible tragedy on the farm.

As the era of American farming comes to an end, it proves more difficult than expected for one young man to convince an old woman that she should leave the land for more fruitful prospects.