14-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson) is emotionally and physically scarred after suffering a terrible riding accident while astride her prized horse, Pilgrim. Realizing that the fates of her daughter and the horse are inextricably linked, Grace’s mother, Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas), launches an all-out campaign to find a “horse whisperer,” someone with a unique gift for curing troubled horses. She learns of Tom Booker (Robert Redford) known to be a legend for this sort of work and packs up both Grace and Pilgrim to seek his help in Montana.

While Tom works to rebuild all the lives that have been shattered by the accident, love blossoms between the gentle horseman and the uprooted sophisticate, a love with both wonderful and tragic consequences.