In the first three months of the sleep-deprived, surreal, and emotional haze of being postpartum, a writer tries to make sense of her new identity as a mother.

Birdie (the title character) struggles with depression as she raises her two-year old son and works a dead-end job in rural Missouri outside of St. Louis. She sometimes wonders what would have happened had she stayed in LA and continued to persue acting. Her friend (a working movie director) visits her while he films on location. They contemplate "the grass is always greener" concept of family verses career.

A young woman endeavors to find her voice as she tries to maintain balance between work, life, family and new motherhood.

A married mother of two desperate to find relief from the infinite days of nothingness and the loneliness that threatens to suffocate her daily is faced with a decision to relieve her suffering or find the will and reason to stay.

When a struggling new mother takes on the project of digitizing her family's home videos, she gets a troubling new perspective on her own upbringing.

Niecey is an abused young girl who is desperate for rescue, yet society continues to fail her.