In the 15 years since her painful high school sojourn, Addie Downs has transformed herself from an overweight misfit into a lovely, fit, but still awkward woman. Her life, until now devoted to redecorating her parents' home and caring for her brain damaged brother, changes suddenly when childhood best friend Valerie, now a TV weather girl with delusions of grandeur, shows up on Addie's doorstep one evening. Valerie has come from their high school reunion and is covered with blood. For some reason Addie readily agrees to help Valerie find out what happened to her old high school flame Dan Swansea, whom Valerie left naked in a parking lot and possibly dead after accidentally hitting him with her car. Despite the fact that Addie has not seen Valerie since high school, they embark on a Thelma and Louise type journey that involves a psuedo bank robbery, a disillusioned cop, and facing the trauma of the past that destroyed their relationship. While on the lam they rediscover their friendship while local authorities try to find out whose blood is on the belt in the parking lot, what happened to the victim, and whether or not a crime has been committed.
Valerie is wacky and out of control while Addie is practical and down-to-earth, two opposites who bonded initially because they were outsiders, in part due to their family situations. Valerie's single mother is an irresponsible dreamer who failed to notice that her daughter needed meals and clean clothes. Addie's mother, now deceased, was generous and practical, but embarrassingly (to her children) obese, and her disabled brother, a once popular athlete, was brain-injured in an automobile accident. This is story of two damaged people who gradually come to terms with their past and future. Weiner has another winner here.
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