Randy Dean (played by Laurel Holloman), a white girl from the wrong side of the tracks who lives with her lesbian aunt and her aunt’s girlfriend after her fanatically religious mother left her to work with Operation Rescue full-time. Randy is the school outcast, laughed at and called a “dyke” by the other kids because she looks kind of butch and “acts like a man”.
The girl she has a crush on is Evie (Nicole Ari Parker), a feminine, college-bound upper-class black girl who has lived alone with her mother (a developing-nations consultant) since her father divorced her mother when Evie was four to marry a white woman.
The two girls go to the same school, but move in completely different circles: Evie hangs with the popular girls, and Randy with her geeky gay friend Frank. They meet late in their senior year when Evie has car trouble and asks for help at the gas station where Randy works, then later, end up in detention together. The girls form a friendship outside of school in which Evie introduces Randy to the wonder of opera and Walt Whitman, and Randy introduces Evie to her unique family and the wonders of being a social outcast.
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