Trading Places: The New Girls

Trading Places: The New Girls

Synopsis
A set of identical twin girls separated at birth accidentally meet up 13 years later in Los Angeles. Erica Wyatt has been brought up in the bright lights of Los Angeles with her working indie movie producer father, and Heather Townsend has grown up in a suburban town 15 miles from L.A. with her party planner mother called Leawood. They concoct a scheme to switch places for the summer in order to meet their other family, and find out who separated them and why? Heather stays L.A. as Erica, and Erica goes back to Leawood as Heather. However, due to their desire to protect their mother from an family history stigma associated with women who give birth to twins, the girls decide not to reveal to their respective families and communities who they really are, and devise a way to switch back to their original families during the summer of 2016.

After discovering that they both come from single-parent homes, they soon realize they are twin sisters and that their parents, Mitchell "Mitch" Evers (Brian Keith) and Margaret "Maggie" McKendrick (Maureen O'Hara), divorced shortly after their birth, with each parent having custody of one of them. The twins, each eager to meet the parent she never knew, decide to switch places. Susan gives Sharon a matching haircut and teaches her how to bite her nails, and they also take a crash-course getting to know each other's personalities and character traits so as to fool the parents.

In 2000, Film school student, Nick Wyatt meet party planning intern Jennifer Townsend and the two began seeing each other. Two years later, in 2002, Nick receives an offer to join a film production firm in Hollywood. Feeling like their relationship has drifted apart, Nick and Jennifer part away and never saw each other again, without Jennifer telling Nick she was pregnant with his child.

Almost thirteen years later in the summer of 2016, it is revealed that Nick is raising a daughter named Erica and is married to a teacher named Alyssa and her collegian nephew, Calvin is living with them to attend college. Erica does not adapt well to her father's marriage to Alyssa nor having her and Calvin in her home and in her life. She frequently clashes with them and wishes that she had her own mother. One day, while having out with her best friend, Stacie Cooper, Erica meet Heather Townsend, a teenage girl from Leawood, California, who is visiting L.A. with her aunt and cousin, Gia. Erica and Heather are in shock to learn that they look extremely alike and are the same age. On their next encounter, they discover they are long-lost twin sisters after finding out that they were raised by a single parent and have the same birthday. Which meant that at the time Nick and Jennifer parted ways, she was pregnant with twins. However, Erica explains to Heather that someone gave her to Nick and told him that Jennifer had died in a car accident, leaving him to raise Erica. With so many questions left unanswered. Erica meets up with Heather again, via video chat to hatch a plan: to switch places in order to meet the parent they have never met and find out who separated them and why? Erica writes down her life, family, and friends on a composition book for Heather to read and Heather does the same thing for Erica. With school out for the summer, it was a perfect opportunity for the twins to make the switch with three conditions; Find out what happened in their parents' relationship on what led to them breaking up, not tell anyone about their secret identity, unless they are trustworthy, and switch back by the end of summer. One Saturday, Heather arrives about the mall, feeling nervous about the plan. Erica arrives ten minutes later and the two switch outfits with Erica taking Heather's hair band in order to be Heather. The two say their goodbyes and agree to email every night before they go to bed. As Heather, Erica arrives in Leawood to meet their mother, maternal grandmother, Lisa, Aunt Kendall, and cousin, Gia. Meanwhile, Heather stays in L.A. and arrives at Erica's house to meet their father, Alyssa, and Calvin.

Upon her new life in L.A., "Erica" learns that she has to attend summer school due to receiving a D in Algebra. Heather learns that Erica isn't a good student and she isn't getting along with Alyssa, not matter how friendly and open Heather tries to be. "Heather" learns that life in Leawood is quiet and boring. Both overtime the girls grow to adapt. Meanwhile, Stacie, Erica's best friend learns of Heather's true identity and vows to keep quiet. When "Heather" gets lost in the Leawood community garden and passes out from exhaustion, Gia rescues her, where she reveals her identity to her. Gia doesn't believe her, but changes her mind when she sees the real Heather via skype. She agrees to keep quiet about the twins.

As time goes by, "Erica" is going well in summer school and is getting along with Alyssa and Calvin, while "Heather" is enjoy life in quiet Leawood. At the same time, they try to get to the bottom of their separation. Jennifer revealed to "Heather" that she had a two year romance with her father and split up when he was offered to join a film production firm. Erica informs this to Heather. At the same time, "Heather" is falling for her sister's close friend, Brandon Cohen. At a barbeque, when Brandon pledges his love for "Heather", Erica reveals her true identity to him. Brandon is angry that Erica lied and fooled him and he leaves, leaving Erica crushed.

As Heather prepares for the Algebra test, she learns about Erica and Brandon and is furious with her. She quickly realizes that it was not important at the moment.

Cast & Characters

 * Noelle Sheldon - Erica Wyatt
 * Cali Sheldon - Heather Townsend
 * Jerry - Nick Wyatt
 * Deanna Milligan - Jennifer Townsend