Irina V. Passmoore

3人の子供を抱えるシングル・マザーのエリンは子供を抱えていては職探しもままならず、信号無視の車に衝突される交通事故に遭う。こちらに過失のない事故だから絶対に勝てると弁護士のエドワードはエリンの弁護を請け負うが、陪審員の目には加害者が医師であるのに対し、エリンは社会的な信用が低く、証言時の言葉遣い悪さも災いして、金目当ての当たり屋と相手側に匂わされた結果敗訴してしまった。事故で負傷したにもかかわらず賠償金を得ることも出来ず、生活に窮したエリンはエドワードに、勝てる裁判で負けたのだから代わりに仕事を斡旋するように要求、半ば強引に彼の事務所で働くようになる。

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?

Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.