For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio Grande flowing between them. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cattleman and a town mayor face a new reality threatening their way of life.

Concluding an ‘Americana’ trilogy that includes 45365 and Tchoupitoulas, this poignant documentary by the Ross Brothers sounds a hymn to community spirit. With its quiet anatomization of border-town life amid rising violence, Western is an optimistic examination of cross-cultural collaboration.