The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity.

Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.