1959. With her unexpected passing, Annie Singer is survived by her Jewish husband Manny Singer, a jingle writer at an advertising agency, and their seven year old daughter, Molly Singer, who, in a manifestation of her grief, has retreated into herself by not speaking. Needing help around the house and with Molly, Manny is interviewing for a combination nine-to-five housekeeper/nanny. Among the less than stellar applicants, who Manny ends up hiring is Corrina Washington, in some respects overqualified in being a recent college graduate in English, but being underqualified in having no professional experience as a nanny and being less than a good cook. But Manny hired her in she and Molly having made some sort of connection. And she applied for the the job in needing the work despite her degree, she already working part-time cleaning houses. Her issue is that she is a black woman who would generally not be hired for the types of jobs she truly would want, her dream job, in being a lover of music, to write album liner notes. Corrina ends up being exactly who Molly needed to break out of her self-imposed shell. She is also who Manny needed as they end up making a home of sorts for Molly, and despite set up "friend" Jenny Davis seeing herself as a potential Mrs. Singer. But as Manny and Corrina start to fall for each other despite the many obstacles, it could be Molly already treating her like a mother and Corrina responding as such that could prove to be the problematic issue.
—Huggo