Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful judge, wants him to own up to this responsibility and will use every advantage his position of power affords him to make sure it happens. When they all meet face-to-face its aparent that there is something not right about their reasons to get Angelina back.