SYNOPSIS:

Derrick Dawes is a 32-year-old, café au lait Adonis who enjoys his bachelorhood. He dates beautiful, young, professional women who are as dedicated to their careers as he is. Derrick enjoys the company of the sultry Cassandra. She dresses while the telephone rings and he never answers it. Derrick rises in the morning and the sporadically ringing telephone doesn’t alarm him, he goes on with his rituals. When Derrick does decide to listen to the many messages on his answering machine, his world is flipped onto its side. Mrs. Monet, the hospital administrator, is calling to tell Derrick that his wife has left the hospital and left their twins. Of course Derrick is sure there is some mistake. He has no wife and babies. He smiles as he returns the call until Mrs. Monet informs him that his information is the only valid information on the infants’ birth certificates and if he does not come down to the hospital to get them he will be charged with abandonment. Derrick calls his mother and asks her to meet him at the hospital. She comes with Derrick’s elder brother, David. The three take a look at the babies, compare them to Derrick’s baby pictures and the consensus is that they resemble him. Derrick is told that a paternal DNA without the mother’s contribution is best done after the infants are three months old. If he signs papers turning them over to be adopted, he is acknowledging paternity and the girls would find him if they ever came looking for their real parents later. Derrick takes the babies home. Derrick’s learning experience with the infants is a comedy of errors and frustrations. His search for their mother is also a comedy of errors and frustrations. His mother insists that he should be able to look at the babies and see something that reminds him of their mother. Derrick decides they resemble his college sweetheart, Angelique, who visited him for consolation during the Christmas holidays the year before. Angelique was having marital problems and really enjoyed being consoled by Derrick. To aggravate Derrick, Angelique sends the girls gifts for their birthdays and Christmas, which he always returns because she denies being their mother. In the meantime, Derrick and the babies’ nurse, Jocelyn, fall in love. A year later they marry and Jocelyn wants her own baby. She has a series of miscarriages. Finally, when the twins are three, Jocelyn carries a baby longer than she ever has and Angelique shows up at their door. In a bout of jealousy, Angelique files for custody of the girls. She is given visitation and runs off with them. Of course, Derrick gets them back. He also successfully delivers his healthy son at home and learns from his attorney that the girls’ real mother has given him full custody. Her only condition is that he ends his search for her.