A woman moves with her seven-year-old daughter and husband to California from Colorado, after her husband abandons them and tries to rebuild their life finding solace in caring for horses and decides to enter in a horse show.

When a woman's ex-husband sublets her apartment right out from under her and she refuses to move, the new tenant, a Chicago actor, moves in, touching off a comic, hate-love relationship.

Every kid has an imaginary friend, but Fred is not ordinary and he doesn't belong to a kid.

No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.