GLOBAL sends employees Steve Butler (Matt Damon) and Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand) to a small town with rich natural gas resources and agriculture as its economic pillar, trying to persuade local residents to cooperate with GLOBAL to exploit natural gas together, which will also revitalize the local economy. Steve thought it was a matter of course, but was opposed by Frank (Hal Holbrook), a science teacher at the local high school. Frank proposed that the whole town vote to decide whether to start natural gas exploitation. The sudden appearance of Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), a young man from the environmental organization "Athena", who used the destruction of his hometown due to the exploitation of oil and gas as evidence, further aggravated the local people's resistance to the exploitation of natural gas. Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt), a woman Steve met in the local area and who had a good impression of, seemed to have lost trust in him. Can Steve successfully complete the company's tasks?