Ross (Rufus Sewell, A KNIGHT`S TALE)) needs a plan. As the member of an exceedingly eccentric British family on a large country estate in the western U.S., he decides what he must do to earn his own fortune--sell the family wine stock and purchase a local manganese mine. But when Ross`s girlfriend Kendal (Minnie Driver) comes to visit, his wise Uncle Cullen (Nigel Hawthorne, THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE), decides to use Kendal as a pawn in a scheme to help Ross find his true purpose in life.