… existentialism among the pioneers …
Which way to turn? Whom can we trust?
It’s 1845 and three couples, one wife pregnant, one couple with a little boy, journeying west in covered wagons, are lost in Oregon territory. Low on food and lower on water, they’ve been led into a trackless wilderness by their arrogant guide, Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood), who thought he knew a better way. Fighting fear, everyone refrains from complaining but in time the men admit among themselves, “We should have followed the main trunk.”