An unsentimental elegy to the American West, this awe-inspiring and endearing observational documentary follows the last modern-day cowboy sheepherders to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana�s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. Filmed over three years by husband and wife anthropologists Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, the permits for the ranch to graze on this land were not renewed; this is the record of the final drive. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, climate and landscape, and vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.