Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.