Love. Hope. Comfort. Joy. Insanity. It's all relative.

Successful New York psychiatrist Jerry Lipman has the perfect life - until his mother makes a startling confession: he was adopted from a young English girl. In short, he's British, not American; he's Catholic, not Jewish; he comes from poverty, not money! Taking the next plane to Liverpool, Jerry tracks down his new relatives, including his chain-smoking, sharp-tongued, birth mother Sheila Fitzpatrick, blue collar brothers Frank and Derek, their four children, plus an army of crazy aunts, uncles, and cousins.