Plot

Conceptual artist Tina (Reiner) introduces her eight-months-pregnant art-school rival (Hendricks) to her non-traditional surrogate Kiki (Camp). The truth comes out and the patriarchy fights to hang on.

An unflinching comedy about why women choose motherhood, why they revere it, fear it, and why some women choose to forgo it. Over the course of one explosive evening, two couples and a surrogate must face their own ridiculous and sometimes heartbreaking shortcomings.

Tina (Alysia Reiner) is a conceptual artist. She and her husband Wayne (Gbenga Akinnagbe) have moved to Karen's (Christina Hendricks) town recently, and there is some sort of rivalry between the two. Karen and Tina studied together back in art school.

Tina wants to look accomplished and sexy in front of Karen. Tina invites Karen and her husband Don (David Alan Basche) over to her apartment in the industrial part of town. Don and Karen are a bit snobbish and look down upon Tina and Wayne's "real and earthly" life choices. The apartment is on the 4th floor and Karen and Don have to climb the stairs as the elevator was out of order. Karen is also pregnant and wastes no time in bringing all conversation to be about her and up upcoming baby.

Don complains that while trying to find their apartment block, someone threw something at their car. Tina says that they don't own a car and commute by bicycle. Tina and Don find a lot in common with each other, while Karen finds Wayne a bit weird with all his suggestions on vaginal training with pelvic stretchers, orgasmic birth, prep for childbirth and that amniotic fluid is basically urine.

Wayne abstains from drinking for solidarity with Karen but was secretly taking swigs from his country made liquor in the kitchen cabinet. Don asks what he does for a living and Wayne that he refuses to be defined by his work. Wayne tries to be abstract and pretentious if face of Don and Karen's snobbish behavior.

Tina starts the topic of how women have to give up their rights (to drink or to smoke) when they get pregnant. Tina then compares a baby to a tick during the breast-feeding phase, which prompts Karen to say that she is looking forward to bonding with her child by feeding it herself.

Karen rubs Tina in the face by saying she feels sorry for women without kids. Tina declares that she is expecting a baby too and introduces Karen & Don to Kiki (Anna Camp), their surrogate. Tina says that she is capable of being a mother herself but made her choice to engage a surrogate instead. Don alleges that Tina didn't want to be fat or inconvenienced.

Tina then proceeds to declare war on the traditional role of mothers in the patriarchal family structure, which is offending to Karen. Tina says that the surrogate will continue to be the mother of the child, even after birth. Tina says that some women only have kids for reasons of ego or vanity. This escalates their tensions as Karen goes on the offensive against Tina.

Tina claims that she is approaching this as an art project, where she is pioneering the outsourcing of pregnancy until the govt stops devaluing women's work and start pricing motherhood appropriately. Karen is horrified at Tina's "economic" approach to motherhood. Tina says that she finds it interesting that her own role in the baby's life is not clear to her, and she is proud of it that she is breaking new ground in societal contracts. Tina says that she is not ready to be brainwashed into an unhealthy attachment that women have with their babies.

It emerges that Kiki is Wayne's friend. Kiki calls Wayne and tells him that her married boyfriend (with 5 kids) Clarke got upset when he heard that Kiki was a surrogate. So Don and Wayne go to get her.

Meanwhile Tina tells Karen that she did get naturally pregnant a year ago but aborted that pregnancy due to her and Wayne's "liberal" beliefs. Tina keeps making derogatory remarks on women who get pregnant, and Karen warns her against attacking her, while Tina feels that Karen is attacking her.

Karen admits that Don is not having sex with her, and she is yelling at him all the time. Tina thinks Wayne has a "pregnancy crush" on Karen because he wanted a natural pregnancy with Tina, and she aborted their first kid.

Karen feels Don is having an affair behind her back. Don and Wayne return with Kiki, who is super-hot. Don is really enamored with Kiki, and that irritates Karen 100%. Kiki turns the entire conversation to herself on how Clarke hates her that she is pregnant, even though his own wife is pregnant, but he has no plans of leaving her. Karen is upset as she thinks Don is going to abandon her. Kiki theorizes that she was Clarke's vixen and now that she is pregnant, he has no use for her, as he already has a mother figure in his life as his wife.

Kiki is now considering an abortion, so that she can get back with Clarke. Kiki paints Clarke as the victim by saying that every time he wants to leave his wife, she tricks him into being pregnant so he can't leave. This makes Karen sick, as this is somewhat similar to what she is doing to Don. Tina starts getting mad at Kiki and Wayne defends her and accuses Tina of being too controlling and manipulative. Don confronts Tina and accuses her of playing power games.

So, Don being a property developer, offers a cheap rental apartment to Wayne in a posh neighborhood. Wayne is not married to Tina and Kiki is having her baby, so now Wayne starts to consider moving in with Kiki into that apartment. Tina panics as she now knows she is losing Wayne, so she asks Kiki to have an abortion. Kiki refuses, now that she knows Wayne is willing to support her. Wayne attacks Tina that she can't stand women who make their own choices. Tina counters by saying that both Kiki and Karen are miserable, but they both say that they are happy with their lives.

Tina is left isolated and alone. Wayne says that he never agreed with her choices but only went along with them as he loved her, but he can't understand her choices anymore and wants to be with Kiki, the mother of his child. Wayne breaks up with Tina and takes Kiki home. One year later Tina launches her art collection and Wayne comes to say hello with his daughter.