“An American professor on a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan finds a newborn baby girl abandoned in a railroad station. In China, where the population explosion taxes the country’s resources to the limit and beyond, and where, traditionally, little value is placed on female offspring, this almost commonplace occurrence could hardly be considered noteworthy. But for Allan Schwartzbaum, it was an event that was to alter his life irrevocably.
The Schwartzbaums, married for seven years and unable to have children of their own, adopt the foundling and bring her back to America with them.”