米克的近路

故事发生在1845年，西部大迁徙的步伐刚刚迈出，想要穿越那片荒芜而又充满了凶险的蛮荒之地，除了需要足够的勇气和运气之外，智慧必不可少。三个家庭决定离开故土，寻找新的生活，为了自保，他们找到了一位名叫米克（布鲁斯·格林伍德 Bruce Greenwood 饰）的向导，希望他能够护送他们安全抵达目的地。 　　然而，当众人在米克所谓的近路上渐行渐远之时，越来越荒凉的景象和越来越陌生的环境让他们知道，他们迷路了。资源在渐渐的消耗，饥渴和恐慌逐渐消磨着人们的意志，就在大家觉得走投无路之际，一名当地土著的到来带来了新的希望，然而，他们并不能肯定，来人是朋友，还是敌人。The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.