When an overweight high school senior ends up on the list of homecoming queen nominees as a prank, she is mortified. Rather than drop out as expected, she chooses to stay on the ballot in order to represent all the "outcasts" at school. As word of her courageousness spreads, she becomes a local celebrity and a symbol for all those who are bullied in high school. But when her newfound fame goes to her head, the kids who stood by her begin to resent her.