Adoptive children from Germany are in short supply. Couples with an unfulfilled desire for children have to wait for a long time and fulfill the strictest of requirements. Often, as a last resort, they turn to adopting a child from another country. This film accompanies a single woman on her long journey to becoming a mother. With the help of 'Help a Child', she manages to adopt a two-year-old child from Nairobi. Abandoned by its biological mother and handed to a home starving and neglected, the child is now traumatized. How long will it take for the German woman and the African orphan to become a family?

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The U.S. Department of State International Adoption page
Adoption.com
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In Focus documentaries and reports cover business and science, culture and education, historical and present day events as well as sports and leisure. This wide variety of topics is investigated in depth and presented in an informative format, making for captivating television, courtesy of Germany's Deutsche Welle news network.