Retta Lee Jones is blessed with a beautiful voice and has big dreams of leaving her tiny Tennessee hometown. So with a beaten-down car a pocketful of hard-earned waitressing money and stars in her eyes Retta sets out to make it big in Nashville. But the road to success isn''t a smooth one and a girl''s gotta figure out who she can trust in a town full of showmen and scammers. Soon Retta begins to have doubts: Can she make her mark and still stay true to herself?