Angie and Russ, a young, well-off, loving suburban couple, eagerly await the birth of their first child. Angie's friends are also pregnant and together their worlds revolve around babies, husbands and the rituals of family life. When an unexpected tragedy befalls Angie and Russ, the community that they were once integrally involved in begins to disappear. Their fair-weather friends, unable to find a way to console or share the couple's grief, simply withdraw, leaving Angie and her husband alone in their sorrow and in their darkest hours of need. Angie's grief begins to drive her to act out in strange and frightening ways.