Paul, a shy Midwestern teenager moves to California at the height of the muscle car era and is taken under wing by class clown Mark, who concocts a scheme to have the two of them overhaul a broken-down '57 Chevy into a hot rod. Except Mark never bothers to disclose he knows nothing about rebuilding cars. The two hapless mechanics triumph in their quest, but a tragedy pulls them apart and they go their separate ways. Everything changes, though, when a flood of eerie e-mails one night from Mark 30 years later convinces Paul that Mark has also failed to disclose something else and it is a matter of life and death. The Groove Project pulses with the sights and sounds of an unprecedented period in American history. It tells a timeless story about the struggle to find your own path in life and the stubborn faith that marks who your friends really are.