High school freshman Teri Dinsmore is a nobody. Daughter of the oft-married Best Lookin' Gal in Town, younger sister of a popular member of the rowdies, her only real friend is the rumpled, eccentric Wesley. Then a fire, indirectly caused by her birthday celebration, burns down her home and sends her family into a tailspin. All of a sudden Teri begins to see herself and her family in a whole new way.