 Selling the world from the trunk of his worn and dented 1948 Tucker, James Frederickson travels across the American countryside with nothing but a car full of altlases and a sales pitch. However, as he arrives in the mysterious town of Periphery, Texas, he begins to realize that the small desert community might not be what it seems. Encountering a farewell parade that sees one of Periphery s elderly citizens off to an unertain destination and a one-man welcome wagon named Peter who can only hint at the town s closesly guarded secret, James comes to learn that even when everything becomes clear, the best things in life can remain unexplained.