Womb Envy

Party boy Max wakes up hungover to his estranged best friend of 10 years, Maggie, asking him to pretend to be her baby daddy. She needs to buy herself some time to figure out how to tell her born again, in recovery Mother that she is having a child out of wedlock. Max agrees, hoping it will give him some direction in life, but is suprised to find an Imaginary Drag Queen (only he can see) has materialized to persuade him out of this plan. 

A flashback reveals Max and Maggie's high school years working together at a record store discussing their escap plans from this town they live in. Dorothy arrives drunk asking for money that Max gives her out of their "Toronto fund". Back to present day, Max and Maggie come up with some ground rules for their charade while The Divine continuously pops up trying to throw Max off. Just as everything is set in stone, Dorothy introduces them all to Patrick, a Lamaze instructor who invites them to join his class. 

Max's bullies arrive to trash the record store and harrass gay Max, while Maggie stands up for him and pretends to be his beard. As we move to the present, Max finds himself being Patrick's lamaze partner and loses himself in the comforting hands of Patricks massage and breathing techniques. 

Over coffee, Max and Patrick bond over sobriety and their love for Empire records. When Max feels ill and rushes to the washroom, The Divine explains that his nausea and sudden weight gain is the result of him having Couvade Syndrome. Kyle arrives using "find my friends" concerned that he hasn't heard from Max in a hot second. Max rejects Kyle thinking he'll blow Max's cover and Kyle puts him in his place. Noticing how thrown off he is, Patrick offers to go for a walk where he invited Max to his first AA meeting. 

Max speaks for the first time at AA, while The Divine tries and tries to get him to tell the full truth to everyone at the meeting. Meanwhile back at the apartment, Dorothy thanks Maggie for letting her back into her life and vows this time will be different. They talk about the family's future plans in Elliot Lake, but the conversation is cut short when Maggie makes an incensitive comment about Dorothy's past. After AA, Patrick walk Max home and tells Max what ableism is and how easy it is to overlook ones privilege. 

In the mid-2000s, teenage friends Max and Maggie are closing up their record store for the night. They discuss what movie to watch and decide on Bee Movie. Max expresses excitement about moving to Toronto the next week, but Maggie reveals she is not going. In the present, Maggie and Max are expecting a child and discuss attending a Lamaze class. Maggie confronts Max about spending time with Patrick and Max admits that he likes him. Despite this, they continue to make plans for the baby and their future, but the tension between them grows as they fight about Max's feelings for Patrick.

A few months after Maggie leaves, Max has let himself completely go as a shut in. The Divine appears in his apartment to pluck him out of his depression by bringing him on his on Christmas Carol journey. They visit the past to see how Maggie has always been there protecting him, then whisk away to the present to see her protecting him still even though they've had a big fight. Bringing him to the future reveals that if he doesn't reach out to his support system and resolve things with Maggie, he will remain pregnant and alone. 

After going to Elliot Lake to find Maggie, Max reveals that he is pregnant. Maggie is shocked and confused, but the two eventually sit down to talk. Max opens up to her about his fears and doubts, and the two discuss their pregnancies, and reconcile. They return to Toronto so they can respectively come clean to Patrick and Dorothy, but not everything goes according to their plan. 

Max rushes down the steps of a church to catch up with Patrick, who is on the sidewalk looking at his phone. Max apologizes for not communicating with Patrick for two months, and tries to convince Patrick to talk to him. Patrick explains that he thought Max was with Maggie, and that he has moved on. Max tells Patrick that he is okay with who he is and that he thinks about him all the time. Patrick tells Max that he needs to be with someone who has accepted themselves, and that he doesn't trust Max. Max asks if Patrick is rejecting him because of the pregnancy, and Patrick doesn't answer. Patrick orders Max an Uber and goes back into the church, leaving Max standing on the sidewalk. Max returns home to tell Maggie what happened when Patrick arrives to give him a piece of his mind. Instead Maggie defends Max and Patrick becomes more understanding. Max and The Divine share a tender moment, and as everyone is finding a cheerful mood and unexpected suprise makes the night interesting. 

Dorothy arrives drunk at the apartment to confront everyone and take Maggie home. Maggie tries to explain that she lied because she was scared of her mother's reaction and falling off the wagon. Dorothy doesn't want to accept this and wants to take Maggie back home to find the real father. In the heat of the argument, Maggie's water breaks and they all go to the hospital. Dorothy discovers that Maggie is not engaged to the father as she previously believed. She confronts her daughter and her supposed ex-fiancé, Max, and Patrick, who is revealed to be Max's current partner. As Dorothy becomes increasingly drunk and enraged, she accuses Max and Patrick of being sinners and part of the "Gay Agenda." Maggie reveals that she lied to her mother because she is scared of her and didn't think she would accept the fact that she doesn't want to have a child with the father. Eventually, Maggie stands up to her mother and declares that she is staying with Max. In the heat of the argument, Maggie's water breaks which brings them all to the hospital to give birth. 

Max wakes up from a disoriented state to find he no longer has couvade syndrome and that Patrick is by his side. He starts stalling the conversation in hopes that Patrick will stay by his side, when Patrick opens up to him about how he got his visual disability to show Max that he trusts him and isn't going anywhere. Meanwhile, Dorothy tells Maggie that she went ahead and called Jessie, who is now at the hospital waiting to see his and Maggie's baby. Maggie is not impressed but agrees anyway. The Divine appears one last time to tell Max to never stop queering and live his life. After finding out Dorothy has blocked Max from visiting Maggie and the baby, Max and Patrick make their way down to the NICU where Maggie, Jessie and Dorothy are with the baby. Max and Maggie make eye contact through the glass window wondering where they go from here.

In a 1950's style "Leave it to Beaver" sitcom, Max finds himself on the set of a tv show based in his apartment dealing with a constantly crying baby that he doesn't know how to make stop. As the episode progresses, Jesse arrives to take his place as he slowly gets written off his own show. After multiple stop/starting recording multiple times, Max takes the opportunity to tell each character how his behaviour has affected each one of them and vows to treat them better moving forward.