Utopia Falls

Utopia Falls, Wyoming, 1869, a new town in a new territory attracts determined people from conflicting political ideologies, nationalities, races, ethnicities and genders, all wanting to create a Paradise resembling what they had at home, but with them on top this time. In the spotlight--- giving women the right to vote, hold office and own property, along with whether Utopia will be run by profit-seeking Capitalists who believe in survival of the fittest, or ‘Anarchists’ who want an ‘each gives according to their ability and takes according to their needs’ mandate as the only law enforced is ‘Doc’. ‘Doc’ is an academically-altruistic James Spader-like Harvard intellectual who uses his position as the town doctor and his skills as a clever manipulator to set up interesting social experiments to create an ideal Enlightened society that he can show off to his family and friends back East. But Doc winds up becoming part of his own social experiment, suffering the consequences of the liberations he makes possible. In 1921, this sole, now mad, remaining citizen of Utopia relates the tale of the noble experiment to a young female doctor/aspiring Western writer who is lured to the ghost town, who he hopes will set the record straight.