Ben gross lives in a tiny house as a single father to none other than Devi's child, who's a spitting image of her, works out life with a rebellious but kindhearted tween, still grieving over the death of his first love, and upcoming surprises and romances for the gross household. WhileBen and Anaga, Devi's daughter struggles to not have a mom, as she enters middle school her first year of actual school. All of this is seen through the eyes of the 12-year-old girl and is shown the beautiful father and daughter relationship. Anaga goes through making friends, meeting her school's swimming coach, Paxton hall-Yoshida. And making it into the classes for high schoolers, because of her advanced brain and learning mechanism. Read throughout my daughter to see Ben gross's soft side for his daughter.
Only Anaga knows the inner struggles that her father goes through to financially and emotionally to support his daughter without his wife, and is Anaga's favorite person in the world. After her mother died( only a few hours after she was born, due to childbirth complications) Ben made sure that Anaga would know who her mother is and the sacrifices both Devi and ben took to have her and made it seem like Ben was a dad and mom in one. Ben does have some support system from Devi's side of the family from Nalini Vishwakumar, his mother-in-law, and Kamala Nandiawada and her husband.
And Devi's friends have been a huge help. Eleanor and Fabiola would come with their respective spouses and kids every weekend to help Anaga and Ben, and so has Jonah and Devi and Ben's college friends are there. But Ben's side of the family not sooo much, Ben and his father were never close, Ben and his mother were a bit close when he was younger, but clearly Ben had a rocky relationship with his parents which he didn't want for Anaga...... Read to find out the troubles they exploreee.
A Maybank and A Cameron? It's almost like a modern Romeo and Juliet. It's forbidden for them to be together. Could be the end of the world.
The stolen glances, the hidden feelings, the unspoken words, the secret meetings and the obvious hatred towards each other followed by constant conflicts and some hidden past that threatened them but there are always invisible strings tied and pulling them together no matter how hard the tides trying to pull and part them away from each other.