While vacationing in Jamaica to get over her baby daughter's death, Leona Hart (Kathleen Quinlan) strikes up a friendship with perceptive maid Clara Mayfield (Whoopi Goldberg). Soon, she transfers her place of employment to Leona's Maryland home and becomes a surrogate mother to the Harts' impressionable son (Neil Patrick Harris) -- a bond that will be tested when the secrets of Clara's past are exposed. Michael Ontkean also stars.