Boston lawyer Gwyneth Jacobi's perfect life is on the skids. First, she suffered a humiliating and very public loss in San Francisco and, now, her dad is dying. Being handed the ignoble job of helping a wealthy do-gooder with a Don Quixote complex save an old lady and her pig sounds like the punch line to a bad joke—until the day the lawyer they call "The Barracuda" meets Cuddles the pig and her handsome champion, Arley McNamara.