Six year old Marthas world is ripped apart when her mother dies during childbirth. As she grows up she never stops missing her mother the mother she strains to remember.Buoyed by marriage to her college sweetheart she hopefully anticipates pregnancy childbirth and motherhood. Instead infertility threatens to rip another hole in her world. She and her husband enter the unfamiliar landscape of interracial and intercultural adoption. They adopt an infant son Lucas from South Korea and a daughter Cl