Due to the economy 34-year-old Margie is back living at home and working for minimum wage. One dark night the neighborhood is roused by a blinding white light in the sky that leads the residents toward a mysterious object in a field on the edge of town. Margie is the first to reach it, and appears to be momentarily knocked unconscious.

The following morning the “monolith” has vanished but a TV news reporter, responding to hundreds of calls by the town folk to the station, still comes to investigate the story. She ends up interviewing Margie, live, on the national network evening news broadcast her station is affiliated with.

During this interview Margie announces that the monolith is telepathically teaching her how to restore prosperity to the country, and thus she is going to run for President of the United States.

Taking advantage of this instant celebrity Margie manages to get into a debate, and with her unique but common-sense views on economics and government does so well that soon the polls show her splitting the vote almost evenly with the traditional candidates.

But when the truth behind the monolith is discovered – that is was a desperate gambit by Margie and the dying small town to get a normal working-class person elected President – Margie has to decide whether to give up and go back to her life of just getting by... or do whatever it takes to prevail.