A doomed love affair between two Wyoming cowboys develops over the course of 20 years. The relationship begins when they are hired to guard sheep on a remote mountain in the 1960s, and though they initially go their separate ways and try to settle down to married life, overcoming their desire for one another proves futile and they continue to meet in secret. Ang Lee's drama, starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway.

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.