Texas. 1848. Mexican families are being forced off their land by the Saxon's who come to colonize this unpopulated state. Two Mexican families, the Iturraldes and the Villareals, find their peaceful existence shattered when they refu

As a misanthropic, aging bartender cares for his estranged wife they begin to outgrow their cynicism while he forges a friendship with an impressionable young woman who is just discovering it.