Moonie Potts (Balaban) is a moody 15-year-old misfit who’ll do anything to get out of dreary New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Lou Benzoa (Spencer-Nairn) is a tough girl from the Bronx who couldn’t be happier to be moving into the quiet seaside hamlet.

Lou is as extroverted and impulsive as Moonie is shy and withdrawn, and soon their unlikely friendship starts turning the town upside down. Lou wins over the local girls by using her boxing skills to punish their two-timing boyfriends, while Moonie plots to get out of her family’s home and to the bright lights of New York City. Since the only girls who escape the Catholic town of New Waterford are those who get pregnant accidentally, Moonie’s schemes start to get increasingly outlandish. Hilarious and exhuberant, New Waterford Girl paints a touching picture of coming of age in a small town.