True love for the wrong person can burn a house from the inside out

After being struck by lightning, ruining her chance at the Olympics in a skiing accident, and dropping out of college, a bartender in a roadhouse in upstate New York tries to survive her shift on Lobster Night.

One of the last inhabitants of a dying midwest town reconsiders the dramatic events and personal tragedies that defined both her and the town’s past after an old friend brings new information to light.