After a tumultuous and difficult upbringing, a woman contemplates whether or not she should give up her newborn child for adoption.

As she begins to feel that her boyfriend is trying to create reasons for her to leave him, a woman tries to understand his difficult past as a child in the American foster care system.

A woman leaves her island home to serve at a créche on the mainland in a poor area of the city. There, she falls in love with one of the children she cares for and wants him as her own, but his mother commits a crime that puts the boy out of reach.

After their mother leaves a preteen and her siblings, the preteen must navigate her emerging adolescence by herself in an orphanage.

One day, a middle-aged couple takes in a child orphaned by a horrible crime.

A young schoolteacher struggles to break the news of her pregnancy to her husband, haunted by the secret of her past — that she's adopted, which leads her to question her legitimacy as a mother.

A gay Black woman living in New York City meets her trans teenage daughter for the first time, years after she gave her up for adoption. The meeting brings back dark and painful memories of abuse and manipulation, caused by her daughter's father.

A middle-aged man and his wife struggle to keep up with their teenage daughter who they just adopted six months ago, especially when she takes interest in a boy her age.

Though numerous social workers try to step in, a co-dependent mother and son bounce from city to city, in search of a place where they can be together at all times.

After experiencing what should have been the most idyllic childhood, four siblings must learn how to assimilate back into the real world.