Jenny is a lonely and unhappy young mother who recently left the world she knew in San Diego for Phoenix Arizona in the summer of 1980. She is having a terrible day, which is made worse when her car overheats on the way back from work. Things begin to look up when Kate, a cute and good-hearted high school rocker chick, offers her a ride home. Jenny’s radiator isn’t the only thing that overheats as the two young women are drawn together by circumstance in the scorching desert heat.
It is the summer of 1980 in Phoenix Arizona. Kate, a high school rocker chick with flame red hair, is driving the “bandmobile” back to her boyfriend’s place after an afternoon of shopping at garage sales. When she stops to help a stranded motorist she meets Jenny, a lonely young mother recently moved from California. Jenny’s radiator isn’t the only thing that overheats as the two young women are drawn together by circumstance in the scorching desert heat.