Thirteen-year-old Tracy Louise Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) is a straight-A student who writes poetry. At her Los Angeles middle school, she is teased about her "cabbage patch" clothes by more popular girls. Her divorced mother Melanie (Holly Hunter) is a recovering substance abuser and high school dropout who struggles as a hairdresser to earn enough to support Tracy and her older brother Mason (Brady Corbet), who is an avid surfer. She buys Tracy a few new clothing items from a discount ...