While working as a speechwriter for a U.S. Senate campaign, ENVIRONMENTALIST Dorothy Goodwin takes her liberal(!) views all the way at a protest! And loses her job in the process – well, she quits on principle after her level of involvement is downgraded, but who’s counting. Off she goes, leaving her best friend Glenn and her liberal LA enclave to return home to her conservative Texas hometown, determined to do something “real,” where the “real” things are happening. She arrives at the home of her estranged grandfather Frank in Alabaster, TX, full of energy but, she ultimately realizes, without a solid…or any…plan. An uninvited but lucky encounter with Greta, a grade school frenemy, brings Dorothy to a free luncheon at the Alabaster Women’s Chamber of Commerce, run by Genie, the town matriarch. Here, Dorothy learns that her high school bully Brent is running as a Republican for State Legislature. Enraged and motivated to thwart him at all costs, Dorothy goes on a deep internet dive and discovers a political loophole – under Texan law regarding this race, if a party’s primary nominee drops out of the race before the general election, no new candidate can be named by that party…thereby almost ensuring the seat goes to the other party’s candidate. Dorothy can run as a Republican, beat Brent, then give up her nomination to force a win for the Democratic candidate – a woman who has run four times, but never won. Dorothy returns to her roots, with a full MakeoverXGlenn(TM), as a true Republican candidate. Without ever technically lying, she blusters her way through a campaign (into which she still manages to fit environmentalism, the environment should not be political!), hiding under a veneer of platitudes and incomplete, dodgy statements. Just like on TV, it works! On the trail, with Greta as her campaign manager, she will grow to know the women of this town, reconnect with grandfather, and finally face her devastation over her father’s passing before she really knew him, resulting in her deepest hatred – toward herself. Unable to hide her true feelings, even as she plays a role, Dorothy discovers that good vs. evil isn’t necessarily as simple as left vs. right, and that hugging the people that you love is…arguably…as important as saving the rainforest.