A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crises over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy and takes drastic measures to get one. In 1974 a homemaker with four children discovers that she's pregnant and decides she can't handle raising another child just as she has gone back to college. In 1996, a pregnant college student decides on an abortion, but doesn't realize the means she must go through to get one,