
Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.

Helen lives with her ex-husband, his 20-year-old girlfriend, their new baby, and his dying mother Gwen. Her life is a grind, and like all the other women she toils with at the local chicken factory, her life spent in service of th...