In 1977, naive, twenty-one-year-old Maggie Lennon leaves Northern Ireland to look for a summer job in America. What she finds is a job as an all-night DJ for Radio WA1A radio, a boss called Zollie D Follie and a best friend, Sharla Emma-Lea Ayn, who introduces her to dope, shaved legs and sex with blonde-haired surfers. And there's no going back from that. When the radio station relocates to Tennessee, Maggie's life is turned upside down by two men: Nate, the handsome son of a rich Southern family; and Buford, a Country and Western rock star. But as Maggie's professional life takes off and she becomes a player in the music business, so her love life crash-lands. Who knows how it happens, Maggie must be crazy, but pretty soon she's standing with a gun in her hand, Buford's girlfriend, Sue Lynne, is lying on the floor and the police are on their way...