New Mexico, 1959. At the the edge of a seemingly infinite desert, Fender Lee navigates life as an ex-con, a master mechanic and a guitar prodigy in a tiny town. He runs the Last Chance, a lonely service station where dreams shimmer in the heat wave rising from the asphalt. Fender loves Ruby, the town's diner waitress, but she's tied to Chigger, the local tough. It's a love triangle locked in an arid stalemate...until destiny blows in with a freak storm. Along with the storm, a stranger strolls into town, setting in motion a cosmic series of events lead to Fender's salvation. With echoes of 1950s Americana and hints of the coming 1960s tumult.