Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a color-blind adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he cant produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic Freddie Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddies arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrisons neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathys answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.