父亲是堂堂总统(迈克尔•基顿 饰),萨曼莎(凯蒂•霍尔姆斯 饰)从小便过着舒适无比的生活,日常中她处处有人照顾,根本不用她动手,她也十分反感受到太多的监护,她渴望得到更多的自由。此时,她接到了大学的录取通知,她对新生活的到来十分期待。 满心以为大学生活能让自己过上不一样的生活,萨曼莎从小不会做事的一点受到了同学们的嘲笑与捉弄,使萨曼莎灰心不已。同时,萨曼莎也遇到了自己的爱情,她与宿舍管理员詹姆斯(马克•布鲁卡斯 饰)恋爱了。恋爱生活为她带来了很多甜蜜与美好,她渐渐也忘了那些烦心的事。 但好景不长,萨曼莎发现自己心爱的男孩竟然是总统父亲的人,目的就是要监视她的生活。这样一来使萨曼莎既愤怒又伤心……Samantha Mackenzie loves and supports her parents, US President John Mackenzie and First Lady Melanie Mackenzie, and enjoys the privileges that she has received being the only daughter of the President, but sometimes she wants to be what she considers "normal" which means not having her life scrutinized by the world 24/7. She made the decision to go away to college in California at Redmond University in large part to get away from life at the White House and hopefully assert some independence, this first stint at college coinciding with President Mackenzie's reelection bid for a second term in the White House. As such, he knows that his opponents will exploit whatever they can, including placing even more scrutiny on the family, and having even more threats than usual against them meaning his want for more security. So Sam's college experience is less than normal, being followed by a very visible team of Secret Service agents, who are trained to notice the smallest things that may be of threat to her. This highly visible team makes it difficult for Sam to make friends, with her eventual dorm roommate, Mia Thompson, an initially reluctant one. As Sam negotiates with her parents for more freedom than she is allowed, she gets a mostly cooperative accomplice in Mia in exerting that freedom regardless of her parents. Sam ends up finding another simpatico classmate in the form of James Lansome, who she eventually learns is also her resident advisor. In James helping her find those moments of independence, she falls for him and he with her. James, however, is keeping his own secrets which may further negatively affect Sam's view of her life, of her college experience and of James himself if she were to discover those secrets, which is more and more likely the closer the election date.