Seventeen-year-old and heavily pregnant Novalee is dropped off by her boyfriend at the Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. Without money or other belongings, she lives secretly inside the department store for several weeks. After six weeks, she gives birth to her daughter, Americus, inside the department store. She is taken care of by a disparate group of people in the town and tries to build her life there.
The emphasis in this film is not on romance although it is there as a component but the focus is more on how Novalee copes through her and others' difficulties. A good movie.
