คู่รักชาวมิดเวสต์รับอุปการะเด็กหญิงผู้มีภาวะแคระแกร็นชนิดหายาก เมื่อทั้งคู่เริ่มเลี้ยงเธอไปพร้อมกับลูกแท้ๆ ปริศนาก็ผุดขึ้นมา
Matt & Amy Roloff enlist the help of their four children Jeremy, Zack, Molly & Jacob to help expand the business of Roloff farms. As the kids grow older, the family grows larger and the Roloffs learn how to keep their family relationships strong.
Sisters Maila and Natalie have different approach to their mother, Onay who has Achondroplasia. Maila is a nice and attentive daughter, while Nataile is arrogant and disobedient. Besides their different upbringing, they have a different father as well.
Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant from an idea by Warwick Davis, and is as described by Gervais, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf".