Quinn, Montana 1990

Laverna wakes up on her 47th birthday to a letter from her estranged daughter. She promptly throws it away and directs her attention to polishing this season's batting order. Inspecting the frozen softball field, she laments about her team's prospects in the Spring.

She heads to her bar, where she is confronted by a former employee, Clinkenbeard, who she's recently fired for selling drugs at work- without paying her commission. She leaves him with a barrage of insults and a half-smoked cigarette.

Jake, a 50 year-old grand dame trapped in the body of a 13 year-old in small town Montana, is relentlessly bullied as a gay freshman in 1990, both by his peers in school and his mother's boyfriend, Bert, at home. He has a guardian angel in the form of Misty, a young juvenile delinquent with a penchant for combining tube tops with yellow eye shadow. When Jake is attacked in school, Misty defends him with a heavy metal toolbox, but ends which ends with her expelled and arrested. 

Now vulnerable and unprotected, Jake runs from his tormentors from the football team, but he's rescued by Laverna, who pulls him into her car. Their chance meeting reveals a shared love for true crime and a contempt for most of the men in the county. When they arrive 

Rachel, newly sober, arrives in her frozen hometown of Quinn, Montana after learning of her father's death. Her tumultuous history with the town has left a trail of strained relationships, particularly with her mother, Laverna, adding to the overall unease that permeates her homecoming. The trailer that she's inherited is a complete wreck in need of a total rebuild- a continuing visual metaphor for her life. 

She decides to visit Laverna, in her ramshackle bar, The Dirty Shame. Her grand gesture at making amends doesn't go as planned, and she is turned away, humiliated. She returns home to meet Jake, her next door neighbor who's been spying on her from his roof on the trailer next door.

That night, Clinkenbeard returns to the Dirty Shame and attempts a comically tragic armed robbery that results in him accidentally shooting Laverna, peppering her arms with a shotgun blast. Her wounds are superficial, but she'll be in double arm casts for weeks. Rachel is recruited as a barmaid at the Dirty Shame, and pressed into service playing right field for The Flood Girls, Laverna's ragtag misfit softball team. Forced between participating in a sport she hates and being called out as a hypocrite for backing down on an amends, Rachel decides to play. 

Laverna offers Jake a job as her scorekeeper. He agrees, on the condition that he design the team uniforms and a Fourth of July float for the town parade. 

The initial practices are abysmal. As Rachel integrates into the Flood Girls, she must grapple with her past actions and the judgmental attitudes of her teammates, many of whom have been affected by her previous romantic entanglements with married men in the community. She is widely perceived as a murderess after the fatal overdose of her married fling. The team doesn't make it easy for her. 

Rachel seeks the help of the Chief of the volunteer fire department, both with her sobriety and the reconstruction of her father's mobile home. He enlists the help of Bucky and Black Mabel, who agree to do the work for cheap.

The season progresses, along with Rachel and Laverna's relationship. They miraculously win four games, qualifying the Flood Girls for the state tournament in Missoula. 

Facing elimination in the tournament, the Flood Girls face an opposing team out for Rachel's blood. After getting intentionally hit with a pitch. Rachel uses this platform to publicly acknowledge her past wrongdoings and express her genuine remorse, demonstrating her earnest intent to seek forgiveness and rectify her past mistakes.

The narrative reaches its apex when an uproarious brawl erupts during the game, embroiling both the Flood Girls and their opponents, the Ellis Engine 3 Embers. This chaotic rumble that leads to the disqualification of both teams from the tournament and a subsequent two-year suspension from league tournament participation. This scene serves as a climactic and dramatic crescendo, shedding light on the trials and repercussions faced by Rachel and the Flood Girls as they confront their tumultuous histories and the harsh judgments of their community.