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As the story progresses, we meet Bob Armstrong, Brick’s father, who juggles his career as a civil rights lawyer with coaching beauty pageant contestants. Bob’s world turns upside down when Dixie, a contestant he mentors, falsely accuses him of molestation following a lost competition, resulting in his professional disgrace.
Patty's life takes an unexpected twist when a chance encounter leads her best friend Nani to approach Brick on her behalf. When Brick rejects the invitation to date Patty, she finds herself heartbroken. A confrontation with a homeless man, who insults her weight, ends violently and lands Patty in the hospital with a broken jaw.