As head cheerleader and beauty pageant winner extraordinaire, Starla's (McGregor) life couldn't be any better. But all of that is about to change when French exchange student Genevieve (Perabo) comes to live with Starla's family. Genevieve wants more than to experience the American way of life, she wants to inhabit Starla's life and will stop at nothing to win over her friends, family and boyfriend. By setting her up to fail Monsieur Duke's (McKean) French class, Genevieve starts to take away everything and everyone that Starla loved. With the help of cute, but un-cool, school newspaper photographer, Ed (Ford), can Starla get her life back and take down Genevieve in the process?