17-year-old Jesse O'Rourke has just been cast to star on a Laguna Beach-style reality show. The producers are making her drop her actual friends in favor of the more popular crowd, but Jesse can't complain too much because the check she is getting will help put the first O'Rourke (her) into college and one of those popular kids happens to be her crush. As producers play with her life in order to heighten the drama, Jesse must remember what is her reality as opposed to her “reality.”