 Curtis and Ella Payne are preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary. But the celebration is interrupted when Curtis and his son, C.J., who are both firefighters, are called away to a house fire. After they return, however, they bring with them the news that the house that was on fire belonged to C.J., his wife, Janine, and their two children, Malik and Jasmine. With no house to call a home, C.J. moves his family into the basement of Curtis and Ella s house, a situation about which nobody is very happy.