While babysitting Emily (Kelsi Copier), a young girl with a cleft lip, Monica allows the child to play with a neighbor kid. This infuriates Emily's overprotective mother Ginger (Terumi Matthews), an exotic dancer who is convinced that her daughter's facial difigurement is God's punishment for her own sins. Things get worse when Ginger refuses to allow Emily to undergo corrective surgery under the auspices of Opeation Smile, a Nashville-based medical organization. But Monica and Operation Smile representative Jeremy (Miles Fuelner) are determined that Emily be given every chance to lead a normal life--even if it means becoming innocently involved with a smuggler (Tone Loc) and heading skyward in a hot-air balloon! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi