Being a family of colorful individuals, Olive's family is unprepared for what the journey they take to get Olive into a beauty pageant will entail for them, as they take a cross-country trip in the VW bus to make it to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant.
A family consisting of a variety of colorful, not so harmonious characters, are determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.