Having been abandoned by her husband for a younger woman has left Lynn Kerr (Daphne Zuniga) and her two daughters, 16-year-old Sophie (Sarah Foret) and 20-year-old Karen (Torrey DeVitto), as women in transition. When Sophie receives a scholarship to attend a prestigious private school, she and Karen convince their mother to move from their small hometown in New Mexico to New York City. Sophie finds it hard to fit in at a high school ruled by a popular clique of wealthy society kids known as the “beautiful people,” while Karen looks to break into New York’s fast-paced and cutthroat modeling world.