Annie Proulx made her name with short stories and novels including The Shipping News, which won her the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a film. For her latest project she embarked on a journey across her native America in a bid to capture the reality of life "western"-style. This Omnibus special follows Proulx as she writes That Old Ace in the Hole.

A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and their importance in adding authenticity to the story, their performances and involvement in the intricacies of the filmmaking process, Native culture today in South America, the history of Jesuit missions, the film's set construction, action scene construction, the picture's story and themes, the presence of the modern-day Colombian Army on the set and the resultant parallels to the film, and much more.