Max Tredwell loses his second job in less than a year in bustling North Seattle due to 'downsizing'. Just when he thought things couldn't get worse, his boyfriend, Sam the Bouncer, dumps him for a giggly 22 year old boxboy dancer. With the push of his work-wife, he applies for and is hired at the small community of Pinecone, Idaho at the foot of the Fourth of July Pass mountain range. There he finds more action he thought possible with his car crushed by an I Beam, his house rigged with explosives and saving Elena Boxworth, owner of Boxworth's Chicken restaurants, from getting ran over at the grocery store. During all this action, he can't stop thinking about the Tall Mountain Man, Ezekiel Boxworth he saw outside his bed and breakfast window.

Just what is going on in Pinecone, Idaho?