Rebecca Cafferty, a recent widow from New York with three young children accepts a job as the managing director of a large California zoo where her brother Dr. Jed McFadden, also works.

Recently widowed Rebecca Cafferty accepts a job as managing director of the Los Angeles County Zoo. She and her three children, Dean, Courtney, and Sam, move into a house on the zoo grounds. Rebecca's brother, Dr. Jed McFadden, also works at the zoo. The kids try to adjust to their unorthodox surroundings while Rebecca deals with the demands of running the zoo and single parenthood.—Anonymous