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高中輟學生瑪利亞告訴家人自己懷孕後，父親倒斃地上，母親把她踢出家門，男朋友棄她而去。於是她孤零零一個人無家可歸。此時她遇上馬修。他是個修理電子器械很有天分的高中畢業生，但他有個原則：質量至上，這使得他每份工作都做不長久。當瑪利亞接受了馬修的幫助，他們便展開一段令彼此發生轉變的關係……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.