An artistic couple living in Austin, Texas, wake up one day to discover they are the last two people left on Earth.

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.