Valley of the Gods contrasts abundance and poverty through three separate storylines, featuring middle-class newly divorced writer John Ecas (Josh Hartnett), eccentric trillionaire Wes Tauros (John Malkovich), and a struggling Navajo community.
John undertakes writing the biography of the richest man on earth, who is dead-set on mining the Navajos' sacred lands for uranium for his own benefit. When modern advance runs afoul of long-dormant guardians from ancient legend, even the most unimaginable wealth may soon meet its match.