Martine Wexler is a writer who runs a secret bookmaking operation on the side, with the help of her son's best friend. Martine, her son Tingo and her daughter Amelie ("Email") are all in various stages of figuring out that life in an ordinary American city is only as ordinary as you make it. The world of this little family crosses orbits with a middle-aged Russian graffiti artist, a hopelessly smitten road musician, a heavily-tattooed foot fetishist, a psychic conversant in gear ratios, an atheist youth minister, and a longtime family friend who carries a lucky spray-painted quarter in her purse. It takes awhile, but Martine finally figures out that no matter when you hear the music, that's when it's time to dance.