Filled with colorful characters, Champion of Lost Causes chronicles the lives of Justin Goodman, a good-hearted yet naive guitarist in a Beatles influenced band, and Blake Lilly, a gifted but troubled recording engineer suffering from mental illness and alcoholism. Follow their intertwining lives from the '70s L.A. music scene to present day Nashville where their paths cross again culminating in a shocking confrontation. Justin wonders whether championing Blake will be one cause too many in this complex and intriguing story of drugs, murder and redemption driven by a rock and roll beat.