Jenna Lind, transplanted from her posh Atlanta penthouse to frozen Fawn Creek, Minnesota, wants to get herself into a good college and escape. She hopes that winning the Butter Queen crown will do the trick. But she loses. And worse yet, she has to have a sculpture of her head carved in butter displayed at the state fair.

Steve Jaax, a renowned sculptor in New York City, finds himself in Fawn Creek carving heads out of dairy products. But the failed beauty queen he meets there has more going on in her head than he expects, and together they discover each other and what true happiness can be.