The movie begins in the bathroom of a diner where a young woman, Jenna Hutcherson, performs
a pregnancy test and discovers the result is positive.
She is in the company of her two friends and fellow waitresses Dawn and Becky and bemoans
her lot, regretting having romantic moments with her husband, Earl, after he got her drunk.
Jenna has since longed to be free of her marriage, making plans to run away by secretly saving
up enough money, but this pregnancy has come as a stumbling block to her agenda.
She makes up her mind not to tell Earl of the pregnancy and While the three women sit
outside, Becky and Dawn acknowledge that even though she has a good-looking husband, they
definitely wouldn't want to be in her shoes because Earl was truly a terrible husband.
Earl comes to pick Jenna up and when they get home, she asks him for money and his permission
to compete in a pie contest, but Earl refuses both requests.
The next day, Jenna goes to a gynecologist hospital and instead of meeting her doctor,
Dr. Lily Mueller, a new male doctor attends to her.
He introduces himself as Jim Pomatter, a junior doctor who just moved from Connecticut.
Jim has sweet yet nervous manners and she gives him the pie she had intended for Dr.
Lily.
When Jim tries to congratulate her on getting pregnant, Jenna expresses displeasure at her
pregnancy.
This leaves the doctor stunned as they schedule an appointment for another day.
The next scene shows Jenna in Jim's office.
She gives him another pie during her visit.
Jim compliments the earlier pie she had given him and says her pies are good enough to win
contests.
The next scene shows Jenna and Becky getting scolded by Carl, the diners' manager for coming
late.
Jenna ignores him but Becky stays behind to exchange words with Carl.
As the day progresses, Jenna goes to take Joe's order.
Old Joe is the wealthy but grumpy owner of the diner and only Jenna seems to get along
well with him.
While she takes his order, he reads her horoscope even though she is less than interested.
As she leaves to get his food ready, she is met by her friend Dawn.
Dawn wants to go on an absurd date of five minutes with a new guy she recently met called
Pete, but she needs Jenna's help to do her makeup because she isn't quite confident in
her looks.
Jenna agrees and when she returns with Joe's order, he points out that she is pregnant.
Shocked at how he knew, Joe remarks that he had seen a similar look in one of his numerous
flings during his younger days, but the lady had ended up losing the baby.
Jenna begs Joe not to reveal her pregnancy to Carl for fear of getting fired and he instantly
cooperates.
While doing Dawn's makeup later that day, Jenna asks Becky if she could give her a ride
home, but her friend refuses with an excuse that she has somewhere else to be.
She refuses to tell even when the other two bug her about it.
Becky leaves and Dawn thanks Jenna for making her look beautiful.
She agrees to drop Jenna at the bus stop before leaving for her date.
While waiting for the bus to arrive, Jenna coincidentally meets Jim.
They are surprised to see each other and Jim explains his car broke down, so he was taking
the bus home.
He sits beside her for a chat and once again, complements her pies.
She tells him she got her love for baking from her mother.
Jim suddenly tells her that when he saw her sitting there in her uniform, she reminded
him of a waitress he used to have a crush on during his younger days.
He met her again but she was much older.
However, Jenna is flattered by his compliment and even blushes.
The bus finally arrives and they both board it together.
That night, Jenna reluctantly engages in romantic moments with her husband Earl.
The next scene shows Jenna attending to a plain-looking young man at the diner, but
the man stubbornly refuses her services and instead, demands Dawn.
Jenna goes to meet Dawn and asks her if she knows the man.
Dawn explains that his name is Ogie.
He was her date last night.
Instead of having a date with Pete, Ogie replaced him.
She describes him as a stalker and a self-absorbed man and that yesterday's date was the worst
time of her life.
Jenna insists that she meets Ogie and Dawn has no choice but to agree.
When she finally sits with him, Dawn tells Ogie she has no interest in him but he insists
on pursuing her listing all his qualifications.
He is established and loves his mother.
He even confesses his love and tells Dawn he would never give her up, but Dawn yells
that she hates him and wishes he would just die.
The scene ends with Ogie in tears and Dawn looking at him in pity.
Meanwhile, Jenna calls Jim during work hours and tells him about the small private part
bleeding she experienced that morning.
Jim tells her to come to the hospital early the following day.
When she meets with him, she realizes that he is the only one at the hospital.
Jim doesn't perform any check up on her leaving Jenna confused about his behavior.
When they are both alone in his office, he tells Jenna that having small bleeding, otherwise
known as spotting in her private part is normal for early pregnancies.
The awkwardness between the two is high as Jenna questions Jim.
She couldn't believe he didn't have a reasonable explanation, for making her come to the hospital
at an odd hour only to tell her spotting was normal.
Annoyed, Jenna yells that she finds him strange.
She marches out of the hospital only to remember that she forgot her purse in his office.
As she heads back to the hospital, Jim comes out holding her purse but without warning,
she suddenly plunges herself to kissing him senselessly, seemingly unable to keep her
lust for him under control.
Jim kisses her back, both of them finally indulging in their desires for each other.
They manage to tear apart trying to make sense of what they had just done.
Eventually, Jim drops Jenna off in front of the diner.
Trying to gather her thoughts, Jenna starts to think of a new Pie recipe, something she
always does when she feels burdened.
In her tranquil state, Joe sees her and points out that her lips are smudged.
When Jenna resumes work, she is unimpressed with the scene she witnesses in front of her.
She sees a mother trying to caution her stubborn toddler son but her efforts prove fruitless.
This leaves Jenna feeling more reluctant about having a baby.
In another scene, Becky and Dawn take Jenna to a private part of the diner.
They offer her a wrapped present and when she unwraps it, she sees a diary.
The two women encourage her to write details of her pregnancy in the book.
It is at this time that Jenna once again opens up about not wanting a baby.
She tells them she feels no emotion towards her child, and plans to sell it off if her
plans to win the pie contest falls through.
Nevertheless, Dawn encourages her to write to her unborn child in the diary.
Jenna begins to write notes to her baby, describing her insecurities about becoming a mother and
the failure she experiences in her life.
The next scene shows Jenna examining her swelling belly.
Earl notices and points out that she has gained weight.
The next scene shows Jenna at the bus stop, once again writing in her diary.
Her bags are with her and it looks like she's about to flee when all of a sudden, Earl drives
up to Jenna and stops the car in front of her.
He accuses her of trying to run away from him and even slaps her when she doesn't give
him an answer.
They drive back home and on the way, Earl manhandles Jenna forcing her to tell him why
she was at the bus stop.
She lies that she was on her way to the pie contest but when he wouldn't stop harassing
her, she finally confesses she's pregnant.
The next scene shows Jenna and Earl at home.
They talk about the baby and surprisingly, Earl isn't that excited about having a child
because he's upset with the fact, that she would pay more attention to the baby than
to him.
He has Jenna promise that she would love him more than the baby and she reluctantly agrees
just to satisfy him.
The next scene shows Jenna meeting with Jim to have an ultrasound.
A mature nurse called Norma is with them.
She congratulates Jenna on her pregnancy but Jim refrains her from doing so, since Jenna
isn't excited about having a baby.
After the ultrasound, the nurse leaves them alone and Jim promises Jenna to keep his distance,
and to only maintain a professional doctor-patient relationship with her but she suddenly kisses
him, and soon, both are immersed in each other, giving into the fire burning between them,
but Nurse Norma interrupts them and they separate.
However, from that day on, they both decide to engage in a tumultuous affair.
It takes quite a while for the reality that she is cheating to take its effect on Jenna
but when it does, she becomes the happiest she could ever be.
She and Jim engage in wild passionate romantic moments whenever the chance arrives and on
each occasion, she brings with her pies until one particular day, she goes to the hospital
to meet Jim only to find that her former doctor Lily Mueller has returned to work.
Jenna manages to hide her disappointment as she asks Lily about Jim.
She tells her he had traveled with his wife for a funeral service.
Feeling defeated, Jenna has no choice but to give Lily the pie she had originally brought
for Jim.
The next scene shows Dawn suddenly announcing to Becky and Jenna, that she finally has a
boyfriend.
They are excited for her but when she reveals that her boyfriend is Ogie, they are less
than thrilled at the news, but Dawn is certain of her choice and gets angry at them for looking
down on Ogie.
They reply that they are only concerned for her and she shouldn't settle down with Ogie,
just because he is the only one who notices her.
Dawn turns the tables on Jenna, hinting that she is in the same situation as her since
she is trapped in her marriage to Earl.
The next scene shows Jenna finally telling Carl about her pregnancy, but he surprises
her by saying everyone already knows since her pregnancy is quite evident now.
He says he doesn't mind that she is pregnant and that as long as she can still serve food,
she is free to continue working in the diner.
Jenna is surprised at his openmindedness because she had always tagged Carl as an emotionless
guy.
The next scene cuts to Jenna taking Joe's order.
He catches her off guard when he suddenly calls her out for cheating.
Jenna denies it but Joe is already convinced.
He indirectly advises her against having an affair by reading her horoscope for the day,
and advises her to be careful, before ordering one of her delicious pies.
Jenna goes to get his order and when she returns to the kitchen, she catches Becky and Carl
having romantic moments.
Jenna is disgusted after what she had seen and confronts Becky in private.
Carl and Becky are both married and Jenna advises her friend to divorce her husband,
if she's not happy in her marriage but Becky cannot do that, since her husband is an invalid,
and it would be terrible of her to leave him.
She further tells Jenna that Carl isn't happy with his marriage to his wife Ethel.
Jenna still doesn't approve of her cheating and Becky is in a rage believing Jenna isn't
on her side.
Dawn interrupts them by informing Jenna that Jim has come to see her.
The two meet at the diner after a long time and Jenna is upset he came to see her at her
workplace.
Jim apologizes and says he misses her but Jenna tells them they should stop seeing each
other.
She leaves him staring after her.
Filled with sadness, Jenna asks Carl if he is happy and he responds that he is happy
enough, and that he is not ashamed of his actions and shouldn't be judged by others.
After work, Jenna sits outside by herself and is later joined by Ogie.
He tells her he is going to propose to Dawn that night and when she comes out with Becky,
he spontaneously praises her with a poem leaving Dawn feeling giddy.
The two eventually leave together and Jenna is left alone with Becky.
She apologizes for their argument earlier and asks Becky if she's in love with Carl.
She responds that she doesn't know.
All she knows is that she feels happier and more adventurous with him.
It's something she needs after putting up with an invalid husband.
The next scene shows Jim paying Jenna an impromptu visit at her home.
She's surprised to see him and he gives her an excuse that he came so that she could teach
him how to make pies.
Jenna tells him she's an unhappy woman and Jim tells her he understands her.
She finally lets Jim in and allows him to embrace her.
The next scene shows the two in the kitchen preparing a pie together.
They are both very intimate as Jim kisses Jenna's neck several times while they bake.
She sings to Jim a lullaby her mother used to sing to her when she was a little girl.
She later asks Jim about his wife and he replies that she's a post-graduate doctor and is now
living with him.
Jenna also asks him if he's happy but Jim doesn't give her a direct answer, and simply
replies that he is happy being with her.
He tells her she is beautiful.
Jenna refuses to believe him but he insists and the two end up kissing each other passionately.
From then onwards, Jenna and Jim become even closer than before, as she begins to confide
in Jim concerning all her troubles.
The next scene shows Jenna and Jim in the office.
Jenna is sitting on Jim's lap.
The two are having a cozy time together when Jim suddenly gives her a wrapped gift.
She unwraps it and is shocked to find that it's a golden-plated baking pan.
Jenna is touched by Jim's gesture and asks him why he would give her something like this.
Just as Jim confesses that he's in love with her, she cuts him off with a deep kiss.
The next scene shows Dawn and Ogie getting married at the diner.
Everyone is having a good time.
While Jenna dances with Joe, he advises her to start afresh.
He doesn't want her to make the wrong decision just like he did.
He acknowledges that he had made several mistakes in his life and wants her to follow her dream,
something he never did.
All of a sudden, Earl crashes into the celebration and causes a scene by throwing things around
and creating havoc.
He demands that Jenna come home with him.
The two leave the wedding in a tense atmosphere and when they are at their house, Earl drags
Jenna to the kitchen and opens a cabinet.
A wad of bills falls off.
Earl then accuses Jenna of hiding money from him.
He had found out she hid them all over the house.
He starts playing the victim, reminding Jenna of everything he had done for her, and how
he takes care of her, and even tries manipulating her to say that she hid the money to surprise
him.
To make him stop, Jenna lies that the money was actually what she had saved up to buy
things for the baby.
Earl seems relieved to hear this and starts kissing her.
However, this lie proves to be her undoing because Earl buys a baby cot with the money
she had saved.
This causes Jenna to hold resentment toward her unborn child and she writes about it in
her diary.
In the next scene, Jenna is having her usual check-up with Jim.
She is in tears as she tells Jim she wants to run away.
Jim feels the same way.
After her check-up, Jenna sits outside the hospital and sees the same mother and son
she had seen in the diner.
The boy is just as rude as ever and seeing the mother complain about him, once again
leaves Jenna feeling unsettled about her future with her child.
Not long after the mother and son enter the hospital, Jenna's water breaks.
Jim, who was with her at the time, assists her as she suddenly enters labor.
Time passes and Earl comes to see her.
He rudely demands that Jim leave the seat next to Jenna so he can be with her.
Jim does as he says.
Meanwhile, Earl doesn't seem bothered that she is into labor and acts quite nonchalantly
even trying to film her.
Joe, who is at the hospital in preparation for his surgery, comes to wish Jenna luck.
He chastises Earl for causing damage to his shop during his crazy foray, and says he only
spared him for the sake of Jenna.
Joe leaves after he refuses to hug Jenna.
Jenna begins to push and at that moment, her room is filled with hospital staff making
her very uncomfortable.
To make matters worse, Jim's beautiful wife Francine comes to meet her.
Jim tells Jenna his wife works in the hospital with him, and Francine informs Jenna that
Jim has told him a lot about her.
Jenna is uncomfortable and requests that everyone leaves.
Her request is granted and Jenna finally delivers a baby girl but despite the child's cries,
she refuses to look at her, or hold her when the nurse tells her to the moment Jenna finally
looks at her daughter, she falls in love immediately.
Suddenly, nothing else matters to her, not Jim, not Earl and as she holds her in her
arms, it is as if she's holding her entire world in her hands.
It is there that Jenna gets the courage to finally ask Earl for a divorce.
She warns him sternly that she would hurt him if he ever neared her again.
Earl is shocked speechless and while he trashes around in a rage, Jenna doesn't care about
him and only focuses on holding her daughter, and staring at her with tender loving eyes.
Jim and some other staff manage to drag Earl out of the room.
Finally, alone, Jenna names her daughter Lulu.
Becky and Dawn visit Jenna and her baby.
They bring her a letter Joe left for her and tell him Joe's condition after his surgery
isn't good, and that Earl didn't pay her medical bills.
He also doesn't want her back in the house.
Due to this, she will be kicked out of the office pretty soon.
They both offer to let her stay at their home until things calm down and while they are
fawning over her baby, Jenna opens the letter Joe had given her.
To her surprise, she sees a small sketch of herself but that doesn't quite shock her as
much, as when she sees a check for a high amount of money.
When her friends ask her what Joe had given her, she only shows them the sketch of her
image.
Jenna and her friends are leaving the hospital with baby Lulu when Jim stops them, and asks
to speak with Jenna in private.
When they are alone, Jenna finally breaks up with him for good.
She observes that his wife truly loves him and would be heartbroken if she discovered
he cheated.
She tells him she wants a fresh start in her life.
Heartbroken, Jim lets her go and when Jenna rejoins her friends, she confesses that she
had an affair with Jim leaving both women shocked.
Jenna, who is now satisfied being a single mother begins her life all over again, winning
the United States pie contest and setting up her diner named after her daughter Lulu.
The movie ends with Jenna who now works with her friends Becky and Dawn.
They are all together with their families and when Jenna leaves the diner with Lulu
later that evening, Becky and Dawn bid her good night watching, as she and Lulu walk
into the sunset hand in hand.