- In 1963, a lonely semi-truck rolls down a Wyoming highway at dawn.
- It stops at a corner, and a man in a brown jacket, cowboy hat and jeans hops from the cab.
- He walks to an office trailer, where he waits outside the door.
- He smokes a cigarette, making this like a Marlboro ad brought to life.
- But then he saves half the cigarette. (Being a Marlboro Man doesn't pay the bills.)
- A raggedy black pickup truck sputters into the parking lot, and another cowboy, this one in a denim shirt, gets out.
- Denim gives his truck a swift kick in the rear, then stares down tan jacket a bit.
- After some time, a man in a white-topped Buick arrives and enters the office without saying a word.
- The men follow him in, where he explains the job he has to offer: herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain.
- They get breakfast and lunch, but they "sleep with the sheep." Not a baaaaaaad deal.
- He tells them to show up Friday at noon, and they don't even have to say a thing. Easiest job interview ever.
- Outside the trailer, denim shirt introduces himself as Jack Twist.
- Tan jacket is Ennis Del Mar.
- They walk to a nearby bar and talk about sheep wrangling, rodeo, and Ennis's dead parents. Not all at the same time. That would be one sad rodeo.