Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss Norway contest, and as a result both girls get more and more preoccupied with their looks. When Lotte is allowed to participate in the contest, it soon becomes clear that being too vain can be a frightening experience.

A Swedish general is going to build an international ballet academy in the village of Tullingdal. But he faces a tricky problem: the village's finest snowmobile trail runs exactly where the academy is supposed to be built.