Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the president of booming Jackson County, Wyo., even when a struggle erupts between your area's poverty stricken immigrants along with its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch proprietors fight immigrants together with the assistance of Nathan Champion (Christopher Walken), a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of community madam Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert). As the battle subsided, Champion and Averill begin to question their own decisions.