This is an "it goes from bad to worse" kind of a story. Tom Rourke is an Irishman haphazardly subsisting in the mining town of Butte, Montana, in the 1890s. He has a poor excuse for a job as assistant to a poor excuse for a photographer, and earns drink money by writing letters for illiterate men luring brides from the east. Tom has two fateful meetings, both involving love at first sight. The first is with a palomino horse, which he stumbles upon while coming down from opium. He’s no horseman, and yet the animal calls to him. The second is with Polly Gillespie, a newly arrived mail-order bride who walks into his photography studio with her God-obsessed stick of a husband, Long Anthony Harrington. The three of them take off on the run and it goes very very poorly.
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