's an unwed teenaged mother, Jerry Sherwood was forced to give up her baby for adoption. But even as the years pass, Jerry can never forget the child she has lost. She sets out to find him, only to receive a terrible shock: her little son died in the home of his seemingly caring foster parents. Jerry begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her child's death - and the further she goes, the more she is convinced that she has stumbled across a hushed-up case of child abuse.