On the last day of school in 1989, Phyllis Nefler is a socialite Beverly Hills wife with a heart of gold recently Legal separation, Freddy, a wealthy owner of an auto shop chain. Freddy feels Phyllis has become a self-absorbed "wikt:shopaholic" who never follows through on her commitments, and that she has drifted from the caring, imaginative, personality that made him marry her. Phyllis thinks Freddy has sold out in his career and is a rude, uncaring and uninterested workaholic who doesn't have time for his family. In an attempt to try and salvage and maintain her relationship with her daughter during Phyllis and Freddy's ongoing contentious divorce, Phyllis decides to become the new Scout Leader of their daughter, Hannah's, unruly, leaderless local Girl Scouts of the USA troop of Wilderness Girls.