From the liner notes

Based on a short film created 15 years ago by the director and co-writer Randall Miller and wife Jody Savin, Marilyn Hotchkiss centers on Frank Keane (Carlyle), a widowed man consumed by his wife's death. On a delivery run one day, Frank witnesses a car wreck and talks to the man inside, Steve Mills (Goodman), who is on the verge of dying. In the last moments of his life, Steve explains the urgency that led to his situation; he tells the story of his childhood love that he swore 40 years ago he would meet at the Charm School where they first met as kids.