"Actor Paul Dano¿s debut feature film is an adaptation of Richard Ford¿s 2015 novel of the same name. The unravelling of a 1960s nuclear family living in Great Falls, Montana, is catalysed by the decision of a newly unemployed father (Jake Gyllenhaal to desert his wife (Carey Mulligan) and teenage son (Ed Oxenbould) to fight the forest fires along the nearby Canadian border."