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Goldfield promised opportunity. It delivered ruin.

Goldfield promised opportunity. It delivered ruin.

The train arrives in Goldfield, Nevada. The town is alive with freight wagons, miners, gamblers, horses, saloons, stone buildings, dirt streets, and the noise of a boomtown chasing money.

Goldfield should look exciting but unstable — a place where fortunes are made, lies are sold, and strangers can disappear. The family believes they are passing through. Instead, Goldfield becomes the place where the story begins to break.