A young up and coming artist in New York city has his life and dreams forever altered when the tragic events of 9/11 take the lives of his two best friends and he accepts guardianship of the couple's two young daughters. Now eleven years later, and teaching art at an elementary school, he raises the girls as if they were his own, but the financial grind to live in NYC is too much, so he decides to take the girls away from the only place they've ever called home and move back to Buffalo where he grew up. This "non-traditional" family now faced with change, new surroundings, and a new journey, must learn how to adjust to this new life, while trying to find themselves along the way. 当911悲惨事件夺走了两个最好朋友的生命，纽约市一位年轻的新兴艺术家的生活和梦想永远改变了，并且他接受了这对夫妻的两个年轻女儿的监护权。 十一年后，他在一所小学教美术，他把女孩当作自己的孩子抚养长大，但是在纽约生活的经济压力太大了，因此他决定让女孩们离开她们曾经唯一称为家的地方，搬到他长大的地方布法罗。 这个“非传统”家庭现在面临着变化，新的环境和新的旅程，必须学会如何适应新的生活，同时努力寻找自己的道路。
