A young widow starting a new life in Phoenix gets a job as a waitress at a roadside diner.

Mel's college buddy Jack Newhouse comes to visit. Flo senses the attraction between Jack and Alice and pushes them to go on a date.

Alice learns that her late husband named another woman as his life-insurance beneficiary.

Alice makes quite an impression after a one-night singing engagement in a local nightclub.

When an obscene caller threatens Alice's life on an answering machine, she decides to take Flo's advice and get a gun.

While Mel is on holiday, Alice takes over the diner with disastrous results.