
Successful New York psychiatrist Jerry Lipman has the perfect life - until his mother makes a startling confession: he was adopted from a young English girl. In short, he's British, not American: he's Catholic, not Jewish; he comes from poverty, not money! Taking the next plane to Liverpool, Jerry tracks down his new relatives, including his chain-smoking, sharp-tongued, birth mother Sheila Fitzpatrick, blue collar brothers Frank and Derek, their four children, plus an army of crazy aunts, uncles and cousins.