Sandra Bullock plays an FBI agent who goes undercover as a contestant in the Miss United States pageant to investigate a threat. With help from her partner Benjamin Bratt and coach Michael Caine, she learns how to behave like a pageant contestant. At the competition, her suspicions about Candice Bergen and her assistant trying to sabotage the event are proven correct, and she is able to stop their plan. The other contestants name Sandra Bullock as Miss Congeniality, and she begins a relationship with Benjamin Bratt.