Marcus, a set-in-his-ways playwright supporting himself as a greeting card writer, eats every afternoon at the same breakfast-all-day café. He sits in the same booth, orders the same breakfast, and is served by the same waitress, Katy. It’s obvious to Bonnie, the other waitress, and Ginger, the owner and cook, that it’s Katy—not the scrambled eggs—that keeps Marcus coming back.

It helps that Katy, a hearing person, knows ASL, since Marcus is deaf. She learned it for her deaf 12yr old son, who happens to be sitting in Marcus’s booth when he arrives today. Katy, meanwhile, is at an audition, hoping to launch her acting career.

Shuffled into Bonnie’s section and served sunny-side-up instead of scrambled eggs, Marcus does not handle the changes well. When Katy finally arrives, he can’t help being a pain-in-the-ass customer, despite his feelings for her. Then Katy gets a call informing her she didn’t get the part. Between that disappointment and the café’s other disruptions, Marcus pushes her too far. She lays into him about everything from complaining about his day job to making a big deal over a stupid breakfast order.

For the first time, they stop politely skirting around their feelings and genuinely connect. As a show of good faith, Marcus takes a bite of the sunny-side-up eggs. They’re not bad. Newly emboldened, he tries something else new and asks Katy out. She says yes, sits down, and he pours her a cup of coffee.

As they smile over their coffee cups, we see that while their relationship has been unfolding, love has been blossoming elsewhere in the café too.