Jessie is pregnant with her third child and first daughter when her husband, Jack, runs off with $150,000 embezzled from a local company that much of the town had stocks in. After weeks of searching and multiple all-points bulletins, no sign of Jack turns up, leading the townspeople to resent Jessie, the closest person in town to Jack, save for his accomplice, Charlie. At first, Charlie had been working with the town to track down Jack too, seeing as Jack had ripped him off and took his share when he disappeared. While a trial is mounting against Charlie, however, he shoots himself in the head. Although the shot does not kill him, it leaves Charlie with such brain damage that the case was dropped, in turn transferring the town's resentment toward Jessie. To make amends, Jessie gives her small house to the company so that they can sell it, but even the profit off of selling the house pales in comparison to the money they lost to Jack. Jessie moves into a small apartment with her sons and begins working day and night to make ends meet. On the weekends, Jessie also begins going to a local club called the Legion. Although at first no one dances with or speaks to her, by the following week, one man asks her for a dance, thereby breaking the unspoken agreement to ignore her. The following weekends, Jessie has a constant line of men waiting to ask her for a dance and buying her drinks. The men see it as payback, dancing vigorously with her, buying her double-shot drinks, and making her pregnant body work hard to keep up with the purposefully difficult dances they asked her to. One night, Jessie is doing another rough dance when she slips on something, sending her crashing down to the floor. The people in the Legion are sorry, trying to help her and asking if she's alright, seeing how pale and shocked Jessie looks, but she brushes them off. After trying to recuperate in the bathroom, a woman notices blood clots in the toilet and an ambulance is called. Jessie's daughter is dead because the placenta had detached and the baby suffocated. Finally, the town feels repaid, because despite the house not being worth much, Jessie's daughter's life amounted to the remaining debt.