Ellis Brady needs a break. Three years into his PhD, he's almost ready to pack it in and he hasn't even started writing his dissertation yet. The only things keeping him going are the two people he sees the most - his dissertation advisor, Mariella, and his boyfriend, Santiago - and his comfort show, Al & Ian, a weird little gem of a cult hit from the 90s that he loved long before he decided to make it the focus of his thesis. Amidst the chaos of research deadlines and meetings and teaching an undergrad film studies class, Ellis is looking forward to his break next month, a whole week with Santiago in a North Carolina beach house. Until things fall apart, when Ellis proposes to his boyfriend at a Kellan James concert during their favorite song and gets brutally rejected. After the most humiliating night of his life, Ellis wakes up sad and single and . . . viral. A video of the failed proposal has garnered millions of views overnight, and even Kellan James himself - Ellis's favorite singer and celebrity crush - has commented. In a haze of mortification and the desperation to have something to look forward to, Ellis takes advantage of the time he booked off to spend with Santiago and he arranges a week in the tiny town where Al & Ian was shot. Wonderland, New Mexico, is the perfect escape. An homage to retro Americana and a shrine to Al & Ian, it's quirky and quiet and totally anonymous. Everything Ellis needs. Until day two, when he wakes up from a poolside doze and finds himself eye to eye with a chart-topping superstar. Kellan James is here. And he knows exactly who Ellis is.