Who is an unmarried mother?
In "Me and Veronica," a tempestuous little drama set in a dingy area of the New Jersey shoreline, Elizabeth McGovern and Patricia Wettig play sisters whose lives are approaching dead ends. Fanny, the "good" sister, is a divorced part-time waitress with artistic leanings who lives in a bungalow in one of those desolate seaside towns of packed-together houses that look like they could be washed away at any moment. 
One day her "bad" sister, Veronica, from whom she has been estranged for five years, comes to visit. Veronica informs Fanny that she is about to go to jail for welfare fraud. An unmarried mother of two, she was caught collecting checks from two states at once and has to serve time on Rikers Island.
Fanny and Veronica share a desperately buoyant night on the town, getting drunk in fishermen's bars and playing a dangerous game called Jersey Chicken, in which they grab the girders of a lifting drawbridge and jump into the inky water. Although they share an edgy affection, there has been bad blood between them ever since Fanny caught Veronica in bed with her husband.
After Veronica goes to jail, Fanny, posing as a state investigator, rescues her sister's children from the trailer park in Netcong, New Jersey where Veronica left them with Michael, the latest in a string of lovers. While visiting Veronica in jail, Fanny also begins to realize that her sister is not just down and out but mentally ill and possibly suicidal. From here the story takes an inevitably grim turn in which Fanny is left to pick up the pieces.
Veronica