Hop aboard a train to Memphis, Tennessee, home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King himself, but now a ghost town of empty streets, rundown buildings and vagrant lowlifes.

At the city's Arcade hotel, three stories play out; a hip Japanese couple on a pilgrimage to Elvis' spiritual home discover a vision of America far removed from the one they'd formed out of popular culture; a young Italian widow (beautifully played by Nicoletta Braschi) on an overnight stop before she flies to Rome with her husband's ashes has a surprise encounter with The King himself; and a trio of men who after a night of drinking and disagreement decide to stick up a liquor store. Parallel lives that subtely interact yet somehow never meet, despite their close quarters.

A boozy and beautiful pilgrimage to an iconic American ghost town, this is an ode to the drifters and the dropouts. The heroes of no fixed abode and no apparent place of employment. Populated by dozens of small, well-observed moments of human behavior, find love and humour in missed connections and the odd couples that embrace this unconventional comedy.

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