It is 1955. Achsa is a lonely, passionate, and precocious fourteen-year-old. Isolated at school by her intelligence and disfigurement, and troubled at home by the undercurrents in her parents’ relationship, she finds comfort and inspiration in the tunes and rhythms she hears on her radio. Hearing a recording by an unknown twenty-year-old country singer named Elvis Presley, she fires off a fan letter, telling him she knows he’s going to be a star.