What is the purpose of art? Is it to elevate our lives or shatter our assumptions? That’s the question facing the leading citizens of a sleepy New England resort when an anonymous nude takes first prize in their community’s art competition. As local gossips speculate about exactly whose bare butt is depicted in that painting, the competition’s wealthy sponsor, Mrs. Bouffant, is horrified and lobbies the judges for a more “appropriate” winner– something involving daisies or an old barn.” Horror turns to outrage, however, when she learns the winning artist is the mailman who keeps losing her deliveries. As she doubles down on her campaign for public decency, an influential New York art critic arrives on the scene, determined to shake up the big city art scene by championing this formerly unknown artist of the “working classes.”