Duffy Bergman, a cartoonist from New York, falls in love with Meg Lloyd, a chef of a restaurant, and marries her, thinking that he has finally found his long-awaited happiness. But here is the trouble - the couple can not get a child, and for Duffy love alone is not enough, you need an heir or heiress, and gradually the desire to have a child turns into an obsession. Disappointed by failure Meg becomes more and more distant and goes to work, and Duffy begins to search for a new love on the side. The new chosen one must not only be a beauty and a goddess of love, she must give him a child!