String, a blues player from the Delta, has a run-in with Myrtle Valene, an elderly woman who is trying to escape her past. Both characters look for a direction away from their past to travel, whether it be with each other or not.
String comes across Myrtle Valene on the side of the road. String and Myrtle bond over factors from their past and help each other make decisions to move them and their lives forward. Together, they will form a friendship and work through the hardships their lives have brought them to. Myrtle and String run away from their past mistakes that continue to haunt them. How they handle their situation, may surprise you.