Life is hard sometimes. Between mortgage payments, poopie diapers, an ever-flowing stream of depressing news, the constant pressure to be more than mediocre, etc. Life can be overwhelming.

If you can relate to this sentiment, then you can relate to Tina, the protagonist of the film. She is overwhelmed and beaten down by life. She sees the goats in her yoga class, and her yoga instructor tells her to be "relaxed and in the moment like the goats," so she decides to do just that.

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Sometimes, when my responsibilities mount and the idea of completing the multitude of tasks before me starts to feel unbearable, I wish that I were a goat, frolicking in the fields and eating grass. This idea - the freedom of being unburdened by the constraints of modern life - is at the very heart of why Tina decides to become a goat. It's somewhat soothing to think that if life is bad you can just run away and escape to the farm, but those who go through with it find, as Tina does, that escape is not always so easy either.