[2] Bancroft received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role.
[3] In Boston in the early 1960s, Geraldine Cummins was walking home alone from the movies when she was jumped and raped by a black man.
She names her newborn daughter Barbara Anne Cummins and gives her to foster mother Corrine Burrel, a black woman in Roxbury.
A few months later, a social worker comes into their home and informs Corrine that Barbara will be adopted by Annalise and Paul, white people living in Wisconsin.
Corrine seeks legal action, looking to adopt Barbara for herself, but as she is divorced with no job and many children, she is turned down.
Years later, in the middle of Barbara's third pregnancy, the doctor suggests she look into her birth family history for medical reasons.
William McDonald of The New York Times said the film is buoyed by "a strong supporting cast" and "[sidesteps] traps of sentimentality", though he admitted, "But what's lost in the blur is a fuller picture of the lonely racial limbo in which Barbara, as a girl, is forced to live.