"Everybody needs to feel that they belong to someone - and that's what our little František can give..." These are the words of childless Věra, who, together with her husband Karel, decides to take in an abandoned boy from an orphanage. The couple have tried many things in their lives: studying, finding a job. But none of these have fully satisfied them. But they have managed to create a home for themselves and now they want to offer it to a third child... Vera and her parents are delighted with the boy, who is still only a trial. But Karel, who himself lives with a sense of failure in his life, is finding it difficult and slow to adjust to the new member of the family...

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her...

On the brink of a family crisis, Alex finds herself being sent to the last place she wants to be, su...

Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after...

Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught w...

Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little s...

A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail th...

An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they lea...

A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husb...

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

The lonely routine of Camila changes when a boy shows up at her doorstep, and tries to create a conn...

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and ...

A married couple decides to adopt a baby girl and raise her as their own, but internal family proble...
Editor Julie and artist Vojta go to a children's home in Sumava to pick up a nine-year-old boy, Matě...

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsess...

A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.

In the collective imagination, international adoption evokes images of children being saved from a l...

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches fo...

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences...

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and h...