Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) is a powerful Mass media Public relations in New York City whose wife, Gertie (Jennifer Lopez), dies during childbirth with an aneurysm. To avoid his grief, he buries himself in his work and ignores his new daughter, Gertie, while his father, Bart (George Carlin), whose own wife died many years earlier, takes a month off from work to take care of her, later returning to work to force his son to live up to his responsibility as a single parent. Under the stress of a botched diaper change and a baby who will not stop crying, he insults his client, Will Smith, and his soon-to-be released film, ''Independence Day (1996 film)'', in front of assembled reporters. He is sacked as a result, and moves back in with Bart in New Jersey. He eventually apologizes for ignoring Gertie, and attributes his public outburst to his grief.