After being thrown out of her house, Maria encounters a married woman who complains of not having children. Maria ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman.

When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.—Leon Wolters <[email protected]>

Maria has just dropped out of school, news which literally kills her father, and her boyfriend has dumped her after she revealed she was pregnant. Matthew has, in a fit of pique, just quit his job and his aggressive, obsessive-compulsive father keeps hounding him about household chores. Both are at wits end when they meet. They seem ideally suited to each other but things aren't that simple.—grantss