Loreli Daly (Jean Smart), beauty pageant organizer and Former Miss Texas Gal 1969, was run out of Paris, Texas ten years ago on the heels of a tabloid sex scandal. Living somewhere in Arizona with her long-term boyfriend and washed-up pageant MC, Lyle (Robert Wagner), and her daughter Corinne (Jennifer Elise Cox), holder of over 200 pageant titles and tiaras, Loreli is invited back, to Paris, to host the Miss Texas Tiara Quest -- but she can't face the shame. Corinne, who dreams of fleeing her stifling mother and the pageant world to pluck starlets' eyebrows in Hollywood, sees the redemptive trip home as her means for escape. Together with former childhood pageant-mates Liz (Jorja Fox), currently a lovelorn prison guard, and Tiffany (Emily Procter), a bored but ambitious local news reporter who sees the story of Loreli's return as her ticket to 20/20 or Dateline, the three gals convince Loreli to go home to Texas and confront her past. The four women & Lyle embark on a fateful road trip, during which they will comically and poignantly come to terms with their own limitations, buried truths and each other.