On September 11, 2001, two of a young up-and-coming artist's best friends were killed in a plane crash, and he was forced to step in as guardian for the couple's two young kids. Almost a decade later, he's teaching art at an elementary school in New York City and raising the kids as if they were his own, but the financial strain of living in NYC is too great, so he decides to return back to Buffalo, where he grew up. Now that this "non-traditional" family is in the midst of a life transition, they must learn to cope with their new circumstances and embark on an entirely new path.