A Chicago newspaper reporter (Barrymore) goes undercover in a high school as part of a piece on what kids today are into, and she soon finds that returning to school helps her through some of her problems. Her readjustment to high school life is accompanied by the presence of her 20-something brother who has gone back to high school in the hopes that it'll help his fledgling baseball career. Amidst the heady atmosphere of high school, is she also going to end up falling in love?