The Homesman (HD) Fandango

Set in the Nebraska Territory in the 1850s, the story centers on the harsh, isolating realities of homesteading. Cuddy (Hilary Swank) is an intelligent, capable, and well-off single woman whose proposal of marriage is rejected by a neighbor because she is perceived as "plain and too bossy".The CrisisFollowing a brutal winter, the severe hardships of pioneer life take a devastating toll on three women in the community.Arabella Sours loses three children to diphtheria.Theoline Belknap is driven to infanticide after extreme poverty and starvation threaten her family