Based on a true story MISS VIRGINIA stars Uzo Aduba as an impoverished single mother who is losing her fifteen-year-old son to the rough streets of Washington D.C. Unwilling to see him drop out and deal drugs, she places him in a private school. But when she can't afford tuition, she launches a movement to change the system that is destroying him and thousands like him. Attacked and threatened by those who don't want change -- from corrupt politicians to the local drug lord, Virginia must discover depths of strength she never knew she had.