In this arrestingly honest documentary, award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand explores the two mother-daughter relationships that have come to define her life: that which she had with her late mother, and the other she is in the process of building with her young adopted child. At a moment of great transition, she explores the power of parental love to help us cope with the challenges life throws at us and what it means to be a new single parent at 50. This tender film reflects on the pains and joys, tears and laughs of a life lived to the full.