Mirta and Alberto DeSalvo, refugees from The Dirty War of Argentina (1976-83) owe their lives to wealthy American, Julia Parks. Soon after the DeSalvos are settled in the employ of Julia in Northern California, Julia discovers her brief affair with a young priest on the lonely Oregon coast has led to an unexpected late-in-life pregnancy.
Free-spirited Julia has no intention of adding a man or a baby to her full and glamorous life. When she asks the DeSalvos to adopt her newborn, Francesca, they have no honorable choice but to accept, even though it means they will not return to Argentina to search for their abducted granddaughter, Cristina.
Although raised in a loving home, Francesca can’t help but yearn for her birth mother whom she fantasizes to have been a young impoverished girl forced to give up her child. When she sets out to find her, secrets begin to surface and lives will never be the same.
Mirta and Alberto DeSalvo, refugees from The Dirty War of Argentina (1976-83) owe their lives to wealthy American, Julia Parks. Soon after the DeSalvos are settled in the employ of Julia in Northern California, Julia discovers her brief affair with a young priest on the lonely Oregon coast has led to an unexpected late-in-life pregnancy.
Free-spirited Julia has no intention of adding a man or a baby to her full and glamorous life. When she asks the DeSalvos to adopt her newborn, Francesca, they have no honorable choice but to accept, even though it means they will not return to Argentina to search for their abducted granddaughter, Cristina.
Although raised in a loving home, Francesca can’t help but yearn for her birth mother whom she fantasizes to have been a young impoverished girl forced to give up her child. When she sets out to find her, secrets begin to surface and lives will never be the same.