吉娜(凯丽•拉塞尔 饰)擅长制作各种美味非常的馅饼,她把每天在生活中的经历都化为做馅饼的灵感。但实际上她的生活并不快乐，她被一段名存实亡的婚姻困扰多年。 　　她一心想参加馅饼比赛，得到足够多的钱之后离开丈夫厄尔（杰瑞米•西斯托 饰）现自己怀孕了，她知道自己的丈夫是个自私的人，无法养育孩子。她十分迷茫之际，遇到了妇产科医生波马特（内森•菲利安 饰）并且两人疯狂的恋上了，波马特也是个已婚之人。她知道自己的行为是错误的，但她还是不能控制的与波马特见面，受尽良心谴责的她从朋友身上得到了很多的启示。 　　就在女儿出生当天，她决意要与丈夫分开，也要好好处理与波马特的关系。Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have?