The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)

Plotzle Original · O147 · July 27, 2026 · Comedy / Drama

Six plot descriptions for The Fundamentals of Caring (2016). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. Two strangers meet at a grief counseling workshop in Portland and decide to open a daycare together despite neither having children or any childcare experience whatsoever.
2. A withdrawn caregiver takes his first client, an eighteen-year-old with muscular dystrophy, on a road trip through the western states where they pick up travelers and form unexpected connections.
3. A grandmother in suburban Detroit starts teaching neighborhood kids basic life skills after her pension disappears and discovers she enjoys mentoring more than her previous accounting career.
4. A community college instructor teaches an adult education course on basic home repair but spends most classes listening to his students share personal problems instead of fixing anything.
5. An anxious wedding planner loses his biggest client when the bride discovers his own marriage fell apart and he helps other couples plan ceremonies while sleeping in his office.
6. A recently sober woman returns to her coastal Maine hometown to run her late father's hardware store and awkwardly reconnects with the ex-boyfriend she abandoned years earlier.