If music is your life, and your life is short, then you'd better get playing.
Young Marius Beecher is living a carefree life in rural Kansas when a chance encounter reveals his gift for music. But just as his talents start to flourish, he learns his mother will suffer a long and terrible illness. He’s assured that a genetic treatment called the Cure will protect him from the same fate, like others in the so-called Perfect Generation.
When a tragic revelation sends his life into a tailspin, he reluctantly travels to a festival for others like him. The eventful week that follows sets him and his new friends on a path to keep music alive in a generation forever robbed of its innocence.
Clockwatchers explores the formation of a young band against all odds and the power of music to inspire hope, in the tradition of Sing Street and The Commitments.