First Cow

Kelly Reichardt ("Wendy and Lucy", "Meek's Cutoff", "Night Moves") continues her cinematic mapping of an unknown America, tracing the origins of capitalist superpower, racism, and exploitation through… a cow.

Synopsis

An experienced, adventurous cook and a Chinese immigrant laborer meet and set up a successful and profitable business in 1820s Oregon Country by illegally milking a landowner's cow.