Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom bring his sumptuous version of Thomas Hardy's seminal novel 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge' to the screen, transferring the location from England to the edge of the American frontier where Daniel Dillon (Peter Mullan) sells his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to his gold mine, only to be haunted by them 20 years later when he is rich beyond his wildest dreams...