500 Miles, 2 Hearts and a Guitar

Randy Bell can calculate the distance between stars, but she's never found a way to close the space between herself and her father. Now he's dying — and giving up — and she's running out of time to say what neither of them ever could.

Jordan Moore has made an art form out of not being taken seriously. Newly out of work, with a musician's restlessness and nowhere left to put it, he's funnier than he lets on — and more lost than anyone knows.

When Jordan's latest act of pandemic mischief — crashing a corporate Zoom meeting in a bathrobe, shower cap, and guitar — lands him in the crosshairs of Randy Bell, she sees an opportunity. Randy has spent her whole life keeping music at arm's length, leaving that world to her father, Marcus — a legendary session guitarist and composer who has quietly given up his fight to survive. But Randy has a plan: if she can learn to play Marcus's most personal composition, the song that says everything he never could, maybe he'll find a reason to stay. The deal is simple: Jordan teaches her guitar, and the incident never happened.

What begins as an awkward transaction slowly becomes something neither of them planned for — a lifeline, a friendship, and something that might be love, stretched across five hundred miles of screen. But as Randy races toward her goal, Jordan is quietly coming apart in ways he won't admit and can't hide forever.

In the end, the song gets played — just not the way either of them imagined. And in playing it, each of them finds what they'd stopped believing they deserved.

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