1968 - 1971Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Parsons is devastated over losing her brother in the Vietnam War. Wanting to learn more about the war, she joins a group of college women who send letters to soldiers and befriends Joseph Russo, a young soldier. But a few months after they begin corresponding, his letters stop coming, and Char moves on, still confused as to why so many young lives are being lost so far away from home. Two years later, Char begins college in her small Illinois town of Grand Falls. Then a stranger comes to town and changes everything. Joseph Russo did his duty and served in the Vietnam War, earning a Purple Heart for his injury as well as a life-long limp. For a boy from the Bronx with a tough father and a delinquent younger brother, Grand Falls sounded like heaven. What started out as a well-deserved escape to a small town for Joe soon turns into a battle of wills between him and the idealistic Deke. And there stands Charlotte, right in the middle. Night Music is a story about a moment in time when the world was chaotic and nothing was completely clear. In the midst of all the chaos, can Char and Joe find enough middle ground to fall in love?