Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) comes to stay with her Grandmother Georgia (Jane Fonda) for the summer leaving some obvious problems behind at home. Her alcoholic mother (played by Felicity Huffman) doesn't even stay the night before rushing back out to California to be with her husband. Rachel shakes up the town, a beautiful girl in the boring Mormon country. Then she reveals her deepest secret to one of her new friends, and her mother comes rushing back to find out if its true.