泰瑞（琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰）曾经也有过美满的家庭和幸福的人生，可是，酗酒的恶习让她的脾气愈发暴躁，性格愈加乖僻，最终，忍受妻子多年的丈夫格瑞（Danny Webb 饰）选择了离开。人到中年却遭到了丈夫的抛弃，泰瑞的精神陷入了崩溃之中，无所适从的她只能借助酒精麻痹自己的神经，但这只会让事情变得越来越糟，泰瑞和四个女儿之间的关系也因此跌入了冰点。 　　一次偶然中，邻居丹尼（凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）出现在了泰瑞的生活里，随着时间的推移，两颗寂寞的心靠得越来越近。看到母亲的生活因为爱情的降临而步入了正轨，泰瑞的四个女儿决定帮助泰瑞促成这段感情。A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own.