Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Deans fatal car crash. Cholames only business, a diner owned by Max (John Mahoney), is overrun by this glamorous group while the diners short order cook (Ian Gomez) and waitress (Virginia Madsen) get caught up into this new, exciting world. Unknown to the rest, a magazine reporter (Linda Emond) arrives in town to uncover a dark secret that Max has kept hidden for over forty years