Tells the personal stories of adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents-including the filmmaker herself, who found herself pregnant after she was raped at age 20 and unwillingly relinquished her child. Others profiled include Alice, a birth mother whose child was adopted out without her consent in 1922; Ron, an adoptee who uncovered the truth after his parents died; Phyllis and Alison, birth and adoptive mothers of twin boys; Tom and Rita, who gave up the baby they had as teenagers and then went looking for him when they reconnected and married years later; and Pat, an adoptive mother supporting her daughter Jody's search for her birth mother.