Middle-aged widow Gwen Lindstrom is the owner of Rancher's Cafe: a restaurant in Dubois, Wyoming. After Donny Myers, boyfriend of Gwen's morning waitress Lacey, is found dead in a barn, the local county sheriff begins to investigate the case.

Learning that Myers was shot and killed, Gwen begins to wonder if his girlfriend Lacey might have murdered him. Drugs, poachers and an unidentified man are all somehow connected to the case.

Soon, Gwen feels drawn to investigate the murder herself. But when the plan goes terribly wrong, can she figure out who killed Donny - and escape unscathed?