[3] In a London karaoke bar some time around 1987, Maggie Conlan, a woman with a troubled past, meets Paraguayan immigrant Jorge and has a drink with him.

Back in the present, the two begin to kiss but Maggie grows hysterical and attempts to storm out of Jorge's apartment, revealing her unresolved feelings of loss for her children.

In another flashback, Maggie meets with a pair of social workers, who tell her that she needs to be assessed at a halfway house in order to have a chance at receiving Sean back, to which she is resistant.

Back in the present, Jorge reveals that he is a political refugee from Paraguay, and has not returned for fear he will be killed due to his dissident views.

Jorge acquires an under-the-table job at a chicken restaurant, and returns home to Maggie, who has a breakdown when she sees an adoption advertisement in the newspaper for Sean.

The health visitor returns later, revealing that she knows Maggie's children are in care, urging her to bring the baby to the clinic for a checkup.

Maggie interviews with a series of Social Services workers in order to keep the baby, but eventually grows tired of putting on a facade and explodes in the face of the third worker to interview them, revealing her long-seated hatred for Social Services based on her belief that they failed to remove her from her sexually abusive home as a young girl.

While Jorge takes a break from the proceedings, he is served with deportation papers after his employer reveals his status as an illegal immigrant as a form of retaliation.

Maggie becomes pregnant again, and after the baby is born, Social Services arrives and announces that they have another place of safety order to execute.

Maggie says that she thinks every day of all her lost children.Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 67%, based on 9 reviews.