Oliver Wendell Watson is a successful advertising executive, with a loving wife, three terrific children and a beautiful home in the suburbs. Then one fateful day his wife tells him that she is leaving to pursue an education at Harvard University.

He then finds himself a single man, unable to cope with the loss of their mother the children fall apart blaming their father for all the problems that have occurred. Can Oliver win the respect and love from the people that mean alot to him.