Summary
Western starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep. The American Midwest in the 1850s: at the behest of the local preacher, Nebraska farmer Mary Bee Cuddy agrees to escort three women, mentally shattered by the rigours of frontier life, to a place of recovery in Iowa. Cuddy press-gangs ornery George Briggs into helping after saving the old reprobate from hanging. But with brutal conditions, outlaws and hostile tribesmen out on the trail, it proves to be an arduous and dangerous journey.