Rachel is a rambunctious teenager from fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah. On Rachel's 15th birthday, she discovers a forbidden cassette tape with rock music on it. Having never heard anything like it, Rachel has a miraculous experience. Three months later, Rachel turns up pregnant and claims to have had an immaculate conception from listening to the music. Rachel's parents arrange a marriage for Rachel, but Rachel runs away to the closest city, Las Vegas, to search for the man who sings on the cassette tape, thinking he has something to do with her mysterious pregnancy...
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Rebecca Thomas's directorial debut is an indie coming-of-age drama in which a young Mormon girl believes that she has become pregnant by listening to a pop song. 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) has been so strictly brought up by her fundamentally religious family that she has never even seen a cassette recorder. Shortly after her 15th birthday, her curiosity about the forbidden contraption triggers both a personal epiphany and a family crisis, leading to the unfolding of a string of unexpected events and encounters as Rachel and her brother, Will (Liam Aiken), leave their hometown and hook up with a gang of street kids in Las Vegas.
When a young teenage Mormon girl, Rachel, gets pregnant, she believes that it was immaculate conception but the rest of her fundamentalist community believe that she has commited an intolerable transgression. In a desperate search to find the truth behind her condition, Rachel makes a revelation about the origin's of the child.
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