Sarah Cain is an attractive, dynamic, newspaper columnist, no longer at the top of her game and eager to get back up there. When Sara's only sister, Ivy, dies without a will, Sarah inherits Ivy's five Amish-raised children and brings the unhappy brood to live with her in the big city. At the urging of her editor, Sarah exploits her new family situation in her column in the newspaper, with stellar success. But when the children find out they've been used to boost her paper's readership, they are hurt, betrayed and demand to live with a different foster Mother.