Jim Jarmusch's visionary, allegorical western chronicles a man's search for a physical and spiritual presence in the world. Johnny Depp is William Blake, traveling from Cleveland, where his parents have just died, to the Western town of Machine, where he has been promised a job as an accountant.
Jim Jarmusch reinterprets the Western for our times. The story is elegantly revealed in a haunting, surreal and almost ghost like manner. A rare Western that is empathic to the Indians as most take the side of the cowboy.