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.

鲍比是一名芝加哥曲棍球队一名出色球员。偶然机会跟一名十岁路易斯小混混扯上了关系，而这名小孩的母亲是一无丈夫的少妇，生活过的很艰辛。在跟路易斯的不懈之交过程中，三人关系日渐密切，似乎必定他们要走在一起，而路易斯跟以前那些混混的关系日益危及他的母亲的人身安全。此时，鲍比会作出什么样的选择呢？