Kate "Katie" Kassell is the daughter of Lee Kassell, the founder and CEO of Kassell Fashion. She is a fashion major and when she graduates, her estranged father asks her to come work for him. She reluctantly accepts when no one else will hire her. However, Kate's stepmother, Elise, and her two stepsisters, Simone and Tannis, conspire to keep her from rising in the company and ruining their plans. Instead of letting her design, they put her to work cleaning and sorting a large storage room filled with years of untouched buttons.