Jay Asher is laughably mundane. In his lazy river life of theater classes and minimum-wage side jobs, he expected to fly under the radar and quietly graduate. But after accidentally picking up the wrong laundry basket the night before his class's production of Hairspray, his days take a sudden turn for the interesting-especially when the person he switched clothes with turns out to be Luis Mendoza, the uptight, local pharmacy student who, Jay admits, makes a very handsome Link Larkin.