Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.

A single woman nearing forty learns that she has an increasingly small window to conceive a child. Motherhood is suddenly a matter of now-or-never, so she attacks the challenge the only way she knows how.

On her first day as a sign spinner for a tax preparation franchise, Nora, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, gets into an argument with Clark, an abortion protester sharing her street corner.