Niall Watson, a medical examiner for the Kansas City police, is devoted to his large, friendly family with all his heart. Due to natural shyness, he does not seek to court women and is quite happy with a measured and calm bachelor life. One day, a foundling, an infant, appears in the apartment of his neighbor Lucy, a shy young woman whom he barely knows. The duty of a man and a policeman orders him to take part in saving the baby. A whole series of unexpected events, a trace from Lucy’s long past, a criminal motive that alarmed the entire Watson clan, will lead the couple to a sharp turn of fate. How much anxiety and delight they will experience!