This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.

Maria Tucci
as Alexandra

Kevin Bacon
as Dennis

Didi Velez
as Blanca

Sudie Bond
as Mrs. Raftery

Lynn Milgrim
as Faith

David Strathairn
as Jerry

Ellen Barkin
as Virginia

Brian Morrow
as Girard

Minona Havilland
as Linda

Ryan Brown
as Mikey