When an aging rockstar goes broke, homeless, and on probation, she must confront the people and places from her past, plus a group of spunky senior citizens, before finding her true audience and reconnecting with her love of music.

SYNOPSIS:

Mica Roman rode the wave of her MTV breakout song “Believer” for the last 35 years. But now, at the tail end of a declining career, she's tired, bitter, bewildered by the state of the music industry, and... She’s broke.

While playing the final show of a lackluster tour in her old hometown, she finally loses her cool when a drunk audience member offends her. Mica attacks the drunk with her guitar, landing her in jail. To make matters worse, her longtime manager quits for a gig with a boy band, and Mica is left alone for the first time to deal with the fallout of her self-indulgent behavior. She accepts a plea and avoids jail, but must stay in her hometown, a place she has avoided for more than three decades. Her sentence... To perform court-ordered community service.

Mica meets her probation officer, Cynthia, an old classmate, and Mica Roman super-fan, who takes pity on her idol and arranges for community service that calls on Mica’s talent, rather than just handing out a sentence of picking up trash on the highway. Her job... She’s now the assistant to a music therapist at an under-funded, state-run nursing home.

As if spending three months in a senior home teaching old people how to play kid songs isn’t bad enough, the music therapist our rock star must now work under is none other than Mica’s former best friend and old bandmate Kelly, who Mica left in the lurch when she skipped town to make it big.

To compound her problems, when she’s not at the old folk's home cleaning blow whistles, she has to stay at a women’s halfway house with a bunch of criminals.

At the nursing home, Mica takes a liking to some of the residents, including old Mr. Grouper, her grumpy twin. Mica and the old man share a love for good music, so when she accidentally breaks his tape player, Mica shows some heart underneath her tough exterior and risks going to jail again by sneaking out past curfew to buy him an old iPod from the local used record store.

Not only is Mica recognized at the store by the twenty-something manager who’s “mom likes her music,” but she’s also caught trying to sneak back into the halfway house, and Cynthia puts her back in jail. You don’t screw with Cynthia... No matter how much she likes you!

Realizing that Mica’s life hasn’t been the 30-year party Kelly thought it was and that she is trying to do something good, Kelly sees past her own anger and bails out her former bandmate. Just hours later, they find that one of the residents of the home and a member of the music therapy class has fallen ill and will most likely die that night.

As a music therapist, Kelly sometimes plays for the person as they pass, to help make the transition peaceful, but this time, the resident asks for Mica to play her big song that he found on the internet. It’s a song she has resisted playing for years, but now she sees that it has power beyond what she could have known and that her most important audience wasn’t 10,000 people; it was an audience of one.

Mica finally comes to terms with her hometown, her place in the musical landscape, and the wreckage of her past. She asks for Kelly’s forgiveness, reunites the band, and for their first concert together in more than 30 years at the local used record store... Kelly sings.