After arriving late to a New Year's Eve gig at a roadside dive bar in 1969, Ralph Stanley hears two fifteen-year-old musicians performing the songs he himself made famous with his recently deceased brother. Ralph takes the two young performers under his wing and on the road with him, jump-starting their professional music careers and setting them both on the path to world fame.

But this is the story of the other folks at the bar on that fateful New Year’s Eve. They may not have become celebrities, but that night had profound, life-changing consequences for everyone who saw Ralph Stanley play.