The Homesman

Nel 1854, tre donne malate di mente vengono affidate a Maria Bee Cuddy, una pioniera forte e indipendente originaria del Nebraska. Nel loro viaggio verso l'Iowa, dove sperano di trovare rifugio, incrociano la strada di George Briggs, rude vagabondo al quale salvano la vita. Decidono così di unire le loro forze per affrontare insieme i pericoli che li attendono nelle vaste distese della Frontiera.

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank). Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones), to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter) head east, where a waiting minister and his wife (Meryl Streep) have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.

En 1854, trois femmes ayant perdu la raison sont chassées de leur village, et confiées à Mary Bee Cuddy, une pionnière forte et indépendante originaire du Nebraska. Sur sa route vers l'Iowa, là où ces femmes pourront trouver refuge, elle croise le chemin de Georges Biggs, un rustre vagabond qu'elle sauve d'une mort imminente. Ils décident de s'associer afin de faire face, ensemble, à la rudesse et aux dangers qui sévissent dans les vastes étendues de la Frontière…

A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.