在 1896 年的纽约市，警察局长西奥多·罗斯福请心理学家拉兹洛·克莱斯勒协助追捕一名猎杀无家可归男孩的凶手。

讲述了一位领唱者陷入信仰危机的故事，当他的小学音乐老师作为新的成年成人礼学生重新进入他的生活时，他发现他的世界发生了翻天覆地的变化。

After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The girls' mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she's in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport as well as a shared history of mental illness. Sam joins Dianne's family to babysit for the summer on Martha's Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.

A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.