 An adopted woman (Gloria Reuben), diagnosed with a severe medical condition is forced to find her birth mother in this fact-based story. Her search leads her to the discovery that her mother (Anne Bancroft) was white and had been raped by a black man in 1961 Boston. She gave the child up to a black foster mother (Lynn Whitfield), who had been forced to give the child up at age 7. She was then adopted by white parents, which left her life in turmoil.