| Director | Bart Freundlich |
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| Genre | drama film |
| Runtime | 112 min |
| Country | United States |
| Box office | $2.9 million |
Isabel Andersen, co-founder of an orphanage in India, must travel to New York to meet a potential benefactor, millionaire CEO Theresa Young. She is resistant to the trip due to her responsibilities at the orphanage and because she does not want to leave Jai, a boy whom she found on the street when he was a year old. He is the closest child in the orphanage to Isabel, and does not want Isabel to leave.
However, Theresa insists on an in-person meeting. Reluctantly, Isabel agrees and goes to it, which takes place the day before the wedding of Theresa's daughter Grace. Theresa invites Isabel to the wedding as a courtesy, so she feels obliged to attend.
At the wedding, Isabel is surprised to see Theresa's husband is her teenage sweetheart Oscar Carlson, now a renowned visual artist. During Grace's wedding toast, she discovers that Grace is not Theresa's biological daughter, but Oscar's. Isabel soon realizes that she is in fact her birth daughter by Oscar, whom they had placed for adoption as teenagers.
Isabel returns to the house the day after the wedding to confront Oscar. She learns that after placing the baby for adoption, he changed his mind within the 30-day grace period, so reclaimed the infant Grace without informing her. Isabel then forces Oscar and Theresa to also inform Grace, who had always been told her biological mother had died.
Theresa encourages Isabel to get to know Grace and reconnect with Oscar, and eventually decides to dramatically increase her donation to the orphanage, thereby forcing Isabel to extend her stay in New York. Eventually, Theresa makes her donation, as well as a newly established fund in Isabel and Grace's name. These are both contingent on Isabel moving to New York permanently.
Mistrustful of Theresa's real motives, Isabel angrily confronts her and learns that Theresa is dying. She then admits she has known about Isabel's link to Oscar and Grace all along and arranged the whole charade to install Isabel as a new mother figure to both Grace and Theresa's own eight-year-old twin boys Theo & Otto. Oscar discovers his wife's illness around the same time and eventually tells Grace, who is already struggling with doubts about her recent marriage and the news that Isabel is her biological mother.
Theresa dies soon after and the family scatter her ashes. Isabel then returns to India for a visit to the orphanage and Jai. The film ends with Jai and his friends playing football in the orphanage.