After much nagging from his mother, Jim takes the hairdresser's daughter, who had recently moved back in with her parents following her divorce, on a date. When he drives her home, her mother is outside hysterically calling her daughter, Lee, a whore. Later, Lee tells him it all started with her mother's bitterness at failing to become an actress. They fought about Lee marrying young and giving up on her dreams at her wedding, right before Lee left Long Island for San Francisco with her now ex-husband, Ken, who was a border patrol officer. She disliked the place, and Ken becomes increasingly racist towards the Mexican refugees. There, Lee endured a difficult labor while Ken flirted with the nurse. Afterwards, Ken introduced her to Dave, a fellow officer who was at the hospital to guard an inmate as she gave birth.
Back in Jim's house, present-day, Lee tells him she slept with Dave because she never felt at home in San Francisco and that that's why Ken hit her.