The plot follows father Troy (Steve Zahn) fleeing with Joe across Montana to Canada after the boy comes out, explicitly rejecting his mother's insistence on dresses, pink clothing, and traditional femininity; flashbacks detail Joe's discomfort with his birth sex and lines such as “Sometimes I think aliens put me in this girl body as a joke. I’m in the wrong body.” The conservative mother Sally (Jillian Bell) functions as the primary antagonist enforcing “God’s path” and gender norms, while the father’s acceptance drives the outlaw-cowboy journey. Director Anna Kerrigan deliberately cast trans actor Sasha Knight as Joe after consulting GLAAD and trans youth, framing the story as a modern Western about outlaws and non-traditional families with explicit intent to promote acceptance of childhood gender dysphoria.