When Retta gets a poor-paying job singing at a shabby hotel, the hotel manager’s young son lets her sleep in a vacant room for free. She meets a mechanic who offers her a job answering phones in his auto shop to pay for the repairs, and a bookstore clerk befriends her and lends her books about the country music business. Some unfortunate circumstances (a parking ticket, a fender-bender, a mugging) force her to sleep in her car, but they also put her in the path of kind-hearted people. All she clings to is a dream to make it in Nashville.įollowing her high school graduation, and despite her mother’s objections, Retta scrapes together her limited savings to spend the summer working in Music City. Everyone in Starling knows Retta is talented, but a beautiful voice cannot fix her parents’ marriage or pay the bills. Retta Lee Jones is an aspiring country singer from Starling, a small Tennessee town.
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