Leslie – played by Andrea Riseboroug, Oscar Award nominee for the role – is a single mother from Texas who makes sacrifices to guarantee her child a decent life. She won the lottery but, in a few years, squandered everything, antagonizing friends and relatives, until she fell into disgrace again. Alone and with no one to rely on, she decides to return to her hometown; there she meets Sweeney, a lonely man who runs a motel and who seems willing to give her that second chance which all the others have denied her. In the cast also the Oscar Awarded actress Allison Janney.