Music. Topher Manning seldom thinks about anything else, but his day job being a mechanic doesn’t precisely mesh along with his rock celebrity ambitions. Unless he can find a way to unlock all the music in his head, his band will be on the fast monitor to obscurity.

Then the South by Southwest music festival and a broken-down car drop NY critic Stanton Porter into his life. Stanton presents Topher a solution to the Bruce Springsteen concert, in which a hesitant kiss and phantom vibrations from Topher’s cellular phone start a love tale that claims to transcend regular possibility.