在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事，于是他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。　　A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows....

生活方式作家兼单身汉娜·梦露继承了已故祖母的小屋，于是她聘请了丧偶的邻居、当地的杂工科尔帮忙整理，准备出售。然而，随着汉娜和科尔相处的时间越来越长，汉娜不禁感到自己对爱情和人际关系的信心正在恢复——她开始质疑自己是否应该把小屋卖掉。