Hoping to return to work as a doctor, Angela befriends young mother Katie and asks her to serve as a live-in nanny. But Angela and her husband, Brian, have no idea about Katie's horrific past, and Brian's mother grows suspicious. When infertile Angela asks Katie to become a surrogate mother, Katie's ulterior motives begin to surface, and Angela quickly realizes that things are not what they seem.

After separating from his wife, a struggling actor is so desperate to be near his kids that he masquerades as a nanny

After her business manager makes off with all of her money, a spoiled New York socialite takes a job as a nanny for a precocious eight-year-old girl

When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women get to know each other better, they begin to form an unexpected bond, although their relationship is not always such smooth sailing.

In 1947 Lahore, the beautiful Hindu nanny of a sheltered 8-year-old Parsee girl is courted by Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Parsees alike until independence brings the partition between India and Pakistan and sets ethnic groups against one another

When allegations of sexual misconduct lead a gynecologist to commit suicide, his widow, bent on revenge, deceptively becomes his accuser's live-in nanny