"Expecting" is a story of a teenage girl that finds out she is pregnant on the day she is to portray the Virgin Mary in her church Nativity play. She must negotiate a kicking and screaming baby Jesus as she sorts out her life crises for her entire church to see.
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.