โดยมีเนื้อเรื่อง เริ่มจากCinderella never had it this bad. High school senior Sam Montgomery (Hilary Duff) lives at the beck and call of her self-obsessed stepmother Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge) and her sinfully wicked stepsisters, who treat her more like a servant than a member of the family. With her sights set on attending Princeton, Sam finds her less-than-sparkling social life wonderfully complicated when she meets her prince charming online. But when her anonymous cyber soulmate turns out to be her high school's über-popular quarterback Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray), Sam makes a mad dash back to reality, leaving her cell phone behind just before the clock strikes midnight.