In New York, the young executive Oliver "Ollie" Trinke is a successful PR of the music industry. He meets and falls in love for Gertrude Steiney, who soon gets pregnant. However, she dies in the childbirth and Ollie decides to return to his father's home in New Jersey. Pressed by the situation of lonely father, the workaholic Ollie blows-up in an important press conference and makes a fatal statement, losing his job and becoming blacklisted in his publicist career. He promises to be the "best father in the world" to the young Gertie, and stays single, grieving his beloved wife, without dating any woman for seven years and trying to retrieve a position of public relation. One day, he meets the rental clerk Maya, they become friends and she helps him to supersede his past life.

Based on writer/director Kevin Smith's experiences as a father.

Ollie:
[to Gertie] You're the only thing I was ever good at.

Continuity: When Gertie is in bed, she is holding her mother's photo upright. In the next shot the picture is flat on her chest.

Written by Aurora Miller and Ronald Miller
Performed by Stevie Wonder
Courtesy of Motown under license from Universal Music Enterprises