After his bandmates abandon him at a hotel in northwest Oklahoma, Dick Gill, a big-band piano player from New York City, doesn't know where to go or what to do. Work is hard to come by in a post-World War II small town, but Dick is fortunate to find a job as night clerk in the very hotel in which he has been staying. As he integrates himself into the community - finding a job, friends, and even love, a long-held secret and a medical crisis threaten his new life and force him to question everything he knows.