A political conultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationhips to his 11-year-old daughter.
Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begin in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the in and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationhips with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspiration, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" verion of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married...
divorce, like marriage, represents a new beginning in your life ... Will Hayes is experiencing a life turning point in his Manhattan residence, are in the process of divorce proceedings, at the same time, he also intends alone with his 10-year-old daughter Maya. Maya is a naive and romantic little girl, however, after all, experienced the divorce of the parents, so you can understand why she has so precocious point. Maya tireless asked his father, and she wanted to know the Will before marriage, what more would like to know their parents meet to love every little detail. Will think we should start with 1992, when he was a young, over-optimistic and unrealistic politicians, in order to demonstrate their skills, just emerged from the home in Wisconsin, moved to New York, is to want to do in the presidential election copies of effort ... in order to satisfy the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of the Maya, Will parents carefully put together so many years in New York a little bit, myself With these memories, to re-experience one of the past: an ideal over head of young people, with their own personal experience, and finally understand the complexity of the political system in big cities and removed twists and turns. Of course, he also recalled the three sections of romance with three completely different woman. Will has been trying, I hope you can find a gentle way to tell the girls their entire lives, so he chose a bedside story, the name of the person involved, all made a change, Maya could only rely on these stories, their own brains to guess in the end to which a woman and her father went into the holy matrimony, and then gave birth to their own ... The Maya kept thinking, my mother is calling it? Dad mouth college lover, trustworthy girl next door Emily? Will life best friend, was not interested in politics Pink confidant Arp Brill? Or is that unrestrained, too easy, but also ambitious news reporter Samo Er? In Maya, the father of these mysterious details of the love all pieced together carefully looking when she understood love is not like the song, the film described as simple and easy, as to the Will, but also about the memories of the process understand a truth that is sometimes not blindly go forward, and more to look back, may be able to go faster ... maybe, just maybe, he really can find a happy life.