"Brokeback Mountain" is set around the 1970's in the American West. Two cowboys enbark on a long and trecherous sheep run together. Beginning a long and miserable trip they try to keep their distance but along the way they fall in love with each other. When Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) return home they hide their secret love and move on with life; each living a normal life with a wife and kids. Their love surpasses time and they long for each other through tragic times. It is a love story between two men that couldn't find any acceptance in their life for their love.