![Denise Nickerson](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/hcWw3RY0TKTQb7y5qEst4dnoYpb.jpg)
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stops in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work are the neon sculptures he creates and attaches to the ceiling.