It tells the story of a newly pregnant couple who are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother.

A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".