Sometime in the twentieth or twenty-first century, a teenage runaway finds refuge working in Wyoming for over 15 years for an older cattle rancher whose unrequited love complicates the terms of her employment.

A Wyoming native unsuccessfully jumps between jobs over his lifetime to support his large family. Through bankruptcy and loss, he perseveres and continues to look forward to his next venture.

In Sheridan, Wyoming during the Red Scare, two migrant workers--an escaped convict and a union organizer--run into trouble with their boss--a corrupt Western movie star who rapes the ex-convict's girlfriend--that places them back on the run. Trouble stemming from the union organizer's reputation as a so-called dangerous Communist follows them to their next job in Montana. In a tense and fast-paced turn of events, the union organizer sacrifices his life to exact revenge on their former boss and the ex-convict and his girlfriend escape to Canada.

Two "straight" young men are hired for the summer to look after sheep on Brokeback Mountain; alone together, they fall into a sensual and secret romance that they never forget and can never quite leave behind. Over the next twenty years, although their careers and families threaten to separate them, they find ways to reunite.

In a small Wyoming town a married Christian roofer who fancies himself an outlaw visits a glory hole when he's meant to be home early to get the kids ready for school the next morning. His wife finds out from a call from jail, and she shoots a bear for digging up her garden.

A woman in a small Wyoming town reflects on the end of her marriage as she watches another woman fall apart in her own relationship.

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.

Amidst the Wyoming dust bowl and Great Depression, the son of an overprotective mother leaves to explore the world. However, when he returns injured and scarred, rumors spread that end in tragedy for the boy.

A young couple in 1880s Wyoming buys a plot of land, builds a home, and falls in love. The man leaves temporarily for work, but tragedy befalls each of them, and the couple never reunites.

An Englishman mysteriously arrives in small-town Wyoming, and quickly assimilates into the local culture until a man from his past unexpectedly arrives.