When Frankie's impossibly fragile and neurotic sister, Tommie, abandons Quincy - an incredibly bright inner-city child who Tommie attempted to foster - Frankie is faced with the choice of taking him in or casting him back out.
Frankie Wilde, a very successful and fiercely independent crisis manager whose world is turned upside down when she decides to let someone into her life for the first time - Quinn, an 11-year-old girl whom she adopts and raises with the occasional help of her fragile, nervous wreck of a sister, Maria.