BACKGROUND:  This story begins during a time when pregnancy out of wedlock carried a social stigma. To avoid being shunned and publicly ridiculed, young pregnant women were sent away, many against their will, to live in secrecy in "rescue homes" for unwed mothers in exchange for giving up their babies for adoption.

SUMMARY: An unwed pregnant young woman is forced to give up her baby girl named Stephanie for adoption. The birth father and his mother are forbidden to adopt Stephanie.  Social Services permits the birth parents and the paternal grandmother to write letters without identifiable information for Stephanie's adoption file. Stephanie will be able to have a copy of her file after she's twenty-one. The only hope the grandmother has of ever seeing her granddaughter again is to put clues to the birth family's identity in her letter.

The grandmother and her son move forward, never again speaking of their pain from losing Stephanie. But separately, they share the same longest running prayer... that one day, by some miracle they will see Stephanie again.

 It's an effective drama about hope and the tenacity of family love.

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