Dan in Real Life movie plot

Danis a typical member of the middle-aged crisis family. After his wife passed away four years ago, Dan lived alone with his three daughters. Although Dan himself has a lot of research on parenting and is also a parenting columnist in newspapers to solve problems for his parents, Dan often seems exhausted when he is filled with life by his daughters. The life of no partner and no friends made Dan depress day by day. In order to bring some changes to the dull life, Dan took his daughters back to his parents' house, hoping to change his mood in the new environment and find a new direction for development. The result was unexpected but backfired by the nagging and mocking of parents and relatives, making him even more at a loss. Dan's depressed life seemed gloomy. However, the encounter with Maryin a bookstore seems to be a ray of sunlight re-illuminating his world. But unexpectedly, Mary is actually the girlfriend of her younger brother Mickey. Dan, who adheres to the principle of not digging corners, is already in a dilemma this time facing the true feelings that have sprouted, but he is still facing his own brother .