Harboring romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia Caf?e manager Cornelia Brown embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.
Eleven-year-old Clare Hobbes takes her life into her own hands after her mother disappears, and sets out to find her estranged father, befriending Cornelia, a coffee shop waitress struggling to realize her dreams, along the way.