Eight year old Chinese adoptee, Layla, observes the fading relationship of her parents. As she experiences her parents' separation she tries to make sense of it and looks for reassurance that she and her brother will always have a family.
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her past still haunts her.
In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.
Kocasının alkol bağımlılığı yüzünden aile içi şiddet gören kadın 911'i arayarak yardım ister.. Polisin gelmesi ile alkolik eş tutuklanır ve 7 yıllığına hapse atılır.. Bu sırada başka bir şehirde zengin bir aile çocukları ile mutlu bir şekilde yaşamaktadır.. Ama bu mutluluk fazla devam edemeyecektir malesef.
Başrollerinde Brenda Blethyn ile Marianne Jean-Baptiste’in oynadığı film, başarılı bir Afrikalı-Britanyalı olan Hortense Cumberbatch’in ailesinin tarihini araştırdığında annesinin işçi sınıfından beyaz bir kadın olan Cynthia Rose Purley olduğunu öğrenmesiyle yaşananları anlatır.
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.