Dancer, Texas Pop. 81

Keller, Terrell Lee, John and Squirrel have been best friends all their lives, growing up in Dancer, population 81, in West Texas, and thus arguably thrown together despite having different backgrounds in being the same age in such a small town. The town is so small it isn't even on the map (at least Rand McNally's road map version). When they were eleven, they made a pact that they would be on the first bus after high school graduation to eke out a new life in Los Angeles, population 13 million. High school graduation day has arrived, they comprising eighty percent of the graduating class, the other twenty percent being Vivian, the only female and Keller's confidante, with that first bus to Los Angeles in two days. Cracks, however, seem to be forming in that pact. While John and Squirrel are having second thoughts despite less than perfect lives in Dancer and uncertain futures if they do stay in not having a family legacy on which to rely, it is Terrell Lee who is facing the greatest public pressure to stay, it exerted by his controlling mother to work in management in the family's oil business eventually to take it over when the time comes. While still committed to leaving in not really seeing a future in Dancer despite worrying about the fate of his widowed grandfather with who he lives, Keller isn't sure he can do it without his three friends. The question becomes who if anyone will be on that bus, the townsfolk, trying to influence the outcome, taking their own bets on the matter.