A fourteen-year-old girl awaits signs of womanhood and navigates life alongside her best friend in a small Midwestern city in the 1970s, but their friendship is tested by their families, a group of popular girls, and more of life's trials.
Set in the backdrop of the 1970's in small-town Illinois, awkward fourteen-year-old Jo is her friend Felicia's sidekick, and their friendship is tested by the beckon of popularity in this coming-of-age story.