It's the summer of 1975, and Ray is a man in need of change, but he doesn't know what to change, or even where to begin.
Ray Hayward is a fifty-five-year-old grocery store manager and a disillusioned conservative living with his wife Carol in Simi Valley, California. After a bout of pneumonia, Ray is filled with a deep anxiety about his mortality, causing him to struggle with insomnia.
Consequently, life becomes a treadmill of work, home, a night of drinking beer, aimlessly watching TV, then a half night of sleep, only to wake at 3:00 AM and toss and turn with death-filled anxiety until sunrise.
That's when his best friend Harold suggests he try marijuana for his insomnia - opening him up to the world of rock 'n' roll music, sparking a new dream, and initiating a season of change in Ray and Carol's life...