During a post-Civil War Wyoming winter a stagecoach bearing a bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) his foul-mouthed prize (Jennifer Jason Leigh) an ex-Union officer (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lawman (Walton Goggins) makes it's way towards Red Rock. The worsening snows force them to shelter at a general store occupied by a caretaker (Demian Bichir) a cowboy (Michael Madsen) Red Rock's hangman (Tim Roth) and an aged Confederate general (Bruce Dern). As the blizzard traps them within-possibly with no escape-resentments greed and hidden agendas emerge that might destroy them before the elements do in Quentin Tarantino's moody and stylish sagebrusher.