The moment of truth: Sam’s(Sean Penn) little girl(Dakota Fanning) decides whether her daddy is good enough.  Sam, a mentally handicapped employee of Starbucks with a Beatles fetish, has an eight-year-old daughter. His daughter has surpassed his mental ability, which has marked him as an incompetent father, aside from the fact that he has successfully cared for a small child alone (no small feat) for eight years. Through a quirk of fate, high-powered attorney Michelle Pfeiffer end up taking his case.