Popular party girl Erica gets a dose of reality when she's forced to do community service at a soup kitchen. Still reeling from losing her mother to cancer, she is aloof and distant from her father Ethan when she gets into a car accident and is placed at Angela's Soup Kitchen by her case worker Ramona. She hates it, believing she is being unfairly punished. But a new friendship based on a mutual love for geo-caching and the realization that the patrons of the soup kitchen are much worse off than she could've imagined leads Erica to ask herself what is the meaning of life?