Soon, she and Jeremy – who is quietly hoping his own girlfriend will show up - are meeting up regularly at closing time to commiserate about lost loves while eating slices of his blueberry pie; he serves her pie that always seems to be leftover at the end of the evening. To try to sort out her life and her feelings, she shortly takes off on a cross-country trip, using different versions of her name in each city - Lizzie, Betty, Beth.

At that point, My Blueberry Nights becomes a cross-country odyssey with Jones sending Law no-return postcards about her adventures. He has no way to contact her. Waitressing her way south, she finds herself in Memphis, where we meet small-town drunk Arnie (David Strathairn) and his bitter and promiscuous wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz), and later, it's on to Reno where she meets a Dixie-broad (a peroxided fizzy Natalie Portman), a poker player pretending she doesn't care about her estrangement from her gambler father.

Cinematographer Darius Khondji (Se7en, Funny Games) gets some gorgeous visuals out of window-refracted neon, moody lighting and exquisite framing. And eclectic guitarist Ry Cooder's moody jazz backdrop adds a dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wong's best films.