Jana Shuregate is a woman from backwoods Osawata County who escaped her humble upbringing to become an acclaimed Broadway director. But now she's back in her hometown, where she finds herself directing the local playwrights’ festival at the Osawata County Theatre Actors Community Theatre.

A crazy and opinionated local playwright, a theatre board determined to censor, a handful of talentless actors, a bitchy costumer, a thirteen-year-old pyromaniac, and no set or budget to speak of – what could possibly go wrong?