Would you rather lie to your daughter to protect her heart or would you tell her that her mother abandoned her at your doorstep? If I were the daughter I would feel betrayed but after all I would understand my dad, Who spoiled me and made sure I was well taken care of. Instructions Not Included touches many topics like love, fear, parenthood and death. It's a film not like any other, it really touches the heart.

Valentin, is a playboy who is afraid of settling down, whose life takes a turn when his ex-girlfriend Julie (one night stand?) walks up to Valentins door and hands him a baby girl (Maggie). Julie asks Valentin for money to pay the taxi she vanishes and leaves her daughter not knowing if this playboy is really the father of her child. Being a single man, afraid of commitment he was determined to cross the border and find Maggie's mother. Julie, only leaving two things behind, her daughter and a picture of herself at a hotel she worked at, this leaves Valentin a clue or an idea of where to find her. As Maggie and Valentin make their way a bond is created a feeling he has never imagined, he gets the feeling of finally settling down not for him but for his baby girl Maggie. Valentin, not knowing one bit of English, uses the picture to ask the hotel workers where Julie would be located. They tell him she got fired because she got caught having intercourse in the presidential suite but the only thing he understood was “presidential suite.” This leads him to the presidential suite where he meets a movie director who was looking for stunts who later in the movie would be Valentin's boss and bestfriend all at once. Valentin raised Maggie for six years; she lives in a joyful, fun and carefree environment. Him choosing the career of a stuntman