When Sasha Car­son, a burnt-​out and jad­ed once suc­cess­ful screen­writ­er goes back to his home­town in Mon­tana or North Dako­ta or wher­ev­er, to find in­spi­ra­tion, he finds him­self in the mid­dle of a chain of events that could on­ly hap­pen in a Hol­ly­wood script. Adul­tery be­tween neigh­bors, a glut­tonous sher­iff, a front-​yard au­to me­chan­ic, a trig­ger-​hap­py beer-​drink­ing deputy, and ac­ci­den­tal body am­pu­ta­tions.