A Wyoming cowboy and his wife put up a friend from New York who wants to write about the area -- but no one realizes how extreme the real story will become when she tries to take a character based on reality back with her across the eastern border. A curious drifter in an all-night café coaxes the story out of the cowboy, word by word, until neither can escape the truth of what's happened. 'There was this line she was gonna let me cross,' says the cowboy in this mystery of American East and West. 'She had somethin' that was mine and she was takin' it away. It was like stealin'.'