Minor Linus Shawn's somewhat immature but doting and devoted guardian Will Hilinger is arrested for breaking into pop carol singer Peggy Blum's home. Attorney Alicia, who manages Linus's trust fund, decides to defend him, opposing her practice and private ex-partner Richard Parker. It turns out Will only came to demand back a sum Linus unilaterally transferred from his trust fund to Peggy for the rights on her singular hit, Perfect Christmas, which he wrote before leaving her and their now adult, 'illegitimate' son Andy.