 After her favorite uncle (Eric Stoltz) passes away, fifteen year old Nik (Allison Mack) feels herself trapped in the world of braces, babysitting, crushes, and suburban life until she overhears a conversation between her parents (Karen Allen and Brian Heighton). Now Nik is convinced that her father is having an affair with her widowed aunt (Mimi Rogers) and that her parents are going to announce a divorce on her sixteenth birthday. Despite the reassurances from her non-conformist friends, Babyface (Caterina Scorsone) and Mouse (Dan Petronijevic), that divorce is not the end of the world, Nik will try anything to keep her parents together.