College woman Miriam Knight (Stockard Channing) is smart, witty, and well-meaning, but endures endless bullying because of how she looks and how much she weighs. But after a freak car accident she gets plastic surgery and the results surpass anyone's imagination. Now ravishingly beautiful, she looks nothing like she used to, but the abuse she suffered before still hurts, and she is now on a mission to wreak deadly revenge from former tormentors.