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 starving man wandering the countryside finds solace in a young woman's cottage where she offers him food and rest. But when the young woman starts to behave as if the man is a threat, he must decide whether or not to live up to her fears.

A widow in the Irish countryside needs someone to mow her overgrown fields. She hires her neighbor, who visits her house the following night, but a renegotiation of their agreement is not the only thing he's after.

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

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.

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 young boy in 20th-century Illinois observes a woman from afar as she escapes an abusive relationship, gets married, and finds her calling.

When a girl from the city impulsively marries a country boy and moves to his farm, she finds that his family’s dark history of violence will overcome them both if she cannot defeat it first.

A rancher grew up in a now-abandoned house with a dark past: on a night he was supposed to be gone, he returns to the house unexpectedly, only to find his wife with a lover. He murders the lover and brutally whips his wife as punishment, before announcing he will build them a new house.

When a group of farmers notice that they’re being robbed in the night, they discover the culprit to be a loveable skeletal horse.