Molly is the daughter of a deceased rock legend who is, for the first time in her life, forced to work after her manager steals all her inheritance. With help of her friend, Molly becomes the nanny of Ray, the precocious daughter of a busy music executive. She learns as much about being an adult from Ray, as she teaches Ray about being a child.

Eleven-year-old Vada Sultenfuss lives with her widowed father and is obsessed with death since her mother died shortly after giving birth to her; when Vada travels to Los Angeles to stay with her uncle, she learns more about her mother's past; three brothers with a love for animals travel around America documenting willdlife; when his younger brother Bobby is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their stepfather, Mike turns their Radio Flyer...