Thirty-five hours before her 25th wedding anniversary celebration at the fire hall, Dawna, a hairdresser from a small Nova Scotia town, steals her husband's plumbing van and heads for New York City to lie her way into meeting the American Rapper Missy Elliot. Dawna is obsessed with the Rapper's "out there" lyrics and is determined to deliver her creation, the "M. E. at Liberty," a stylin' hair design to her idol. Although her 17-year-old skate- boarder son, Justin, has refused to come out of his room for 79 days, he thinks her trip to NYC is a great idea. But Dawn's husband, Bob, wants his plumbing van home NOW! It turns out that the universe and a host of wacky hitch-hiking characters, (Dawna's dead Clown parents, a Mermaid, and Miss Excess Baggage, to name a few) have another plan for Dawna as they draw her deeper into her journey.
