The stories of three women whose lives have been affected by adoption. Loner Elizabeth was adopted and has never known her birth mother, Karen has been haunted all her life by the memory of the baby she gave up when she was 14, and Lucy is about to begin the process of adopting a child. Drama, starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington and Samuel L Jackson.

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.