Marco Biagioli

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

In a time of economic crisis, a young woman makes every effort to buy her partner a Christmas present, unaware of what fate has in store for them both.