Juno chooses to place her baby for adoption after confronting her parents and considering abortion. She discovers a couple in the local newspaper who she considers to be the ideal parents. She notices the pair may not have it all together when she meets them, despite the fact that they appear to live a charmed existence. This convinces her to go through with the plan to put her child up for adoption. Juno's parents try to talk her out of it, but she is determined to keep her baby. As time goes on, Juno realizes that she is in love with this couple from the paper and wants to get married. However, her father doesn't agree with this idea so he hires a lawyer to stop the marriage before it can happen. During this time, Juno decides to find another family who would be willing to take her baby. After several attempts, she finds someone who fits the bill perfectly: a young couple who want a child more than anything else in the world. The only problem is that they live in California and she lives in South Carolina. So she calls off the wedding and moves to California to be with her new husband and start a new life. She keeps in touch with her parents by letter and calls them every other month for money since she doesn't earn any herself. One day, she gets a call from her mother who tells her that her father has died. This makes Juno come to realize that she still loves her family even though they didn't love her back.