At the end of a smoky bar in a lonesome Midwestern ranching town, we are introduced to the Package Man, a disillusioned meatpacking executive who unleashes a caustic diatribe on his new found counterpart, a taciturn cowboy ranch hand unlucky enough to find himself seated a few feet away. The Package Man is a principled man who is also a malcontent. In his soliloquy, he laments the loss of nearly everything that once represented goodness in the world: kids, small town life, movies, romance. Even the local Native Americans have been jaded beyond all recognition. As this cautionary tale unfolds, it becomes clear that the Package Man is trapped in his own line of reasoning, which eventually proves to be his demise.