Maggie (on the left) and Annie (on the right).
Annie, who's happily married to Bill and mother of a daughter, moves to a small town with her family. She meets Maggie there, a lesbian who she's drawn to at once, and then joins a softball team Maggie's on. The couple have to deal with their feelings for each other, and acting on them, while Annie's torn by the fact she's already married.
Examples:
- Bisexual Love Triangle: Annie is torn between her husband and Maggie, the lesbian whom she enters a secret affair with. They agree to a polyamorous relationship, but then Maggie is fatally injured by a drunk driver.
- Bittersweet Ending: Just as it looks like Bill, Annie and Maggie will be happy in a polyamorous relationship, Maggie's struck by a drunk driver and later dies. However, Annie is shown happy in the finale, having another girl whom she named Maggie too.
- Boyish Short Hair: Maggie and her lesbian friends have their hair cut short. Eventually Annie follows suit, along with her daughter Jenny, copying the style as she embraces being bisexual.
- Bury Your Gays: Maggie, the lead lesbian character, dies suddenly near the end. This is downplayed somewhat however as the other lead character, bisexual Annie, survives.
- Butch Lesbian: Maggie has short hair, wears boyish attire, works as a mechanic and loves softball. Her lesbian friends all have the same style. We see a couple others too in the bar they take Annie to one night, with one hitting on her.
- Closet Key: Annie says she has never found any woman attractive before meeting Maggie.
- Dead Guy Junior: The ending shows Annie is the mother of a second daughter called Maggie in honor of her now deceased lover.
- Everyone Can See It: Maggie's friends notice quickly that she and Annie now are in love, before either of them admit it.
- Gaydar: One of Maggie's friends pegs Annie quickly as being into women by the way she's looked at Maggie. It turns out she's right, before Annie even realizes herself.
- Happily Married: Annie and Bill are in a happy marriage together with a daughter when the film starts. Annie's falling in love with Maggie however makes things difficult.
- Hereditary Homosexuality: Maggie relates that her mother is also a lesbian, so in her case when she came out her mom was actually overjoyed (she'd run away with a neighbor's wife). One of Maggie's lesbian friends implies that her brothers are all gay too, though she may be joking.
- Lesbian Jock: Maggie and her lesbian friends play on a softball team together. Annie (who it turns out is bisexual) played before in college, joining them.
- Love at First Sight: Annie fell for Maggie within seconds of meeting her, but she took a long time accepting the fact due to having a husband and never finding women attractive before.
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Maggie is a Butch Lesbian and Annie's initially got more conventional looks, getting into a relationship with her. Annie eventually copies her short hair cut, though she never becomes butch to this degree.
- Multi-Character Title
- Nice Guy: Annie's husband Bill is a very kind, laidback guy who's more understanding than most would be of the fact she's gotten involved with Maggie, saying that he can't blame them (not that he's happy with it).
- No Bisexuals: While Annie's explicitly called bisexual in the film, which she doesn't deny, many descriptions of its plot describe her as a lesbian although she's married to a man whom she genuinely loves (it's even a plot point that she feels torn about her relationship with another woman as a result).
- Polyamory: Bill offers to share his wife Annie with her lover Maggie, because he can't stand seeing Annie's sadness when she leaves. Maggie happily accepts, but she then dies after she's struck by a drunk driver.
- Protagonist Title: The film is named after its two protagonists.
- Queer Romance: The film is all about Butch Lesbian Maggie and seemingly straight married woman Annie falling in love, then having an affair while dealing with fallout from this.
- Secret Relationship: After both admit they love each other, Maggie and Annie have a secret affair, but it soon comes out to Annie's husband Bill.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: Annie is portrayed sympathetically over having an affair with Maggie due to her never feeling attracted to a woman before and also feeling quite guilty at cheating. Even her husband Bill is sympathetic to a degree when he finds out.
- Their First Time: After going to a bar's lesbian night, Maggie and Annie have sex together the first time. Annie hasn't been with a woman before.
- Understanding Boyfriend: Annie's husband Bill is surprisingly so. Upon learning that she's cheated on him with a woman, he isn't happy but even so can't bear to see her unhappy after she and Maggie break up. He therefore proposes that they engage in polyamory, something Annie and Maggie happily accept.
- Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Maggie and her lesbian friends take Annie to a bar that has a lesbian night. Dancing together spurs Maggie and Annie to act on their feelings for each other.
