American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.

While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even making new friends with Mrs. Thompson, a local shop keeper, and handsome admirer Deputy Strode. Settling in nicely with her brother's family, Ellie also meets Erik, a young man abandoned by his outlaw father whom Aaron has taken in as one of his own. When Aaron travels out of town to purchase adjacent land for farming, Ellie agrees to watch his children, but the season’s festivities are threatened when Aaron goes missing.

A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.

A childless couple enlists the help of a woman to be their surrogate for their first child. What ensues changes their lives and laws of surrogacy.

泰德·克雷默是一位广告职员，他整天忙碌而无暇照顾妻子乔安娜和6岁的儿子比利。然而有一天，厌倦了整日忙碌家务事的乔安娜终于再也无法忍受这样的生活，抛下丈夫和儿子离家出走。泰德的生活骤然间陷入了混乱之中。他无法兼顾繁忙的工作和照顾孩子两件事，经常遭至上司和儿子两方面的不满。幸而有邻居泰尔玛帮忙，总算还能对付过去。泰德父子俩相依为命地生活着。渐渐地父子俩已是亲密无间，难以分离了。在一次游玩中比利不慎弄伤了眼睛，泰德抱着儿子疯狂地跑到医院。手术时，泰德紧紧地守在儿子身边寸步不离。转眼间一年多过去了，泰德忽然接到乔安娜的电话，两人在一家餐馆见了面。如今乔安娜已是收入丰厚的设计师，她前来纽约是想获得比利的抚养权，两人不欢而散。一场官司不可避免。然而就在此时，泰德却不幸失业。他几经努力，终于在二十四小时内又找到了一份工作。在法庭上，双方的律师全都咄咄逼人。虽然有泰尔玛出庭作证说泰德是位好父亲，法官还是把监护权判给了乔安娜。为了避免给比利带来影响，泰德放弃了上诉，但泰德在法庭上的陈词也已经打动了乔安娜。父子俩分离在即，俩人在一起做最后一顿早餐。就在等待中，乔安娜打来了电话，她见到了泰德，告诉他自己改变了主意，不再要求获得比利的监护权了。泰德父子终于不必分离了。

一名佣兵和一批职业杀手无端卷入一场政治计谋，计划是要铲除西非一名独裁者。