It stars Emile Hirsch, Déborah François, John Cusack, Danny Webb, Tim Ahern and Sam Louwyck.
A man carrying a gun enters a frontier church in Garlow, a town on the California Trail, and a shot rings out.
In the past, the man, Patrick Tate, attends a service at the church during which the preacher claims that some in the congregation regret banning alcohol, gambling, and prostitution, but that this has made theirs a "Christian" town.
Meanwhile, a strange man enters, grunts aggressively at the storekeeper, and stares at Pat's wife Audrey.
Pat wishes to move on now that the "Christian" town has quieted down, but Audrey doesn't want to leave.
In the middle of the night, three men approach Pat's home and ask for a man named Bill Crabtree.
Afterward, he asks to be taken to the saloon, where the innkeeper tells him that the preacher threatened to burn his establishment down if he didn't stop supplying alcohol and prostitutes.
Since the innkeeper has no food, the men return to Patrick's house where he wakes Audrey so she can make a meal for them.
At Pat's house, a couple pass by in a wagon, saying they are headed to California and asking where the saloon is.
Shortly thereafter, Pat hears gunshots and finds the man dead in the street, presumably killed by Dutch's gang.
After Pat is commissioned to build a gallows to hang Emily, his wife tells him he will be implicated in her death, but he says he must.
Pat's children run to the graveyard to tell him and he races home to find Audrey gravely injured.
He loads the blunderbuss with nails and two silver coins, which are traditionally placed on a corpse's eyes.
In December 2017, it was announced Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Deborah Francois, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Ronan, Danny Webb had joined the cast of the film, with Ivan Kavanagh directing from a screenplay he wrote.
[3] In an interview published on Cineuropa prior to its US release, Ivan Kavanagh told Davide Abbatescianni that his main inspiration when writing were ”the frontier photographs from the 1850s onwards.