A brash former beauty queen and single mom talks her way into a job at a small L.A. law firm and begins investigating mysterious illnesses.

When Charlie Babbit's father dies, he learns that he has an autistic older brother who has been institutionalized for years. Charlie and his brother go on a journey, literally and emotionally.

Set in Montana in the early part of the century, a Presbyterian minister teaches his two sons, one troubled and one on his way to success, about life and religion via fly-fishing.