Trapped at home with an overbearing mother and an older brother bent on sabotaging his entire life, teenage Ethan channels all his ambitions into a deluded obsession with uber-hottie Madison Sweet. Meanwhile, his cousin Cleo seems to want to be closer than just family.

As Ethan soon discovers, it's not the clothes that make you cool, some crushes are best left unpursued, and cardboard girlfriends are pretty unresponsive. More importantly, Ethan learns that the only person that's trapping him is himself, and he really does have the ability to "do whatever he wants."