A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it is a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.

Set in South Carolina during the 1950's, two boys form a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the town.

The once and future king: A mediocre Elvis impersonator is transported back to Memphis, 1954, where he meets the real Elvis, then a truck driver and would-be singer in an encounter that transforms both of them. A saucer of loneliness: Shelley Duvall is a shy young woman who receives a private message from a flying saucer. What are friends for?: No one believes that a lonely boy's new friend is real until the boy's father remembers something strange...