When a little girl unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep one day, Sherry Henderson takes her in as her own. Her name may be Talia, or Rachael, or Nico, but to Sherry she's simply Child who helps fill the void in her heart left when her own child was killed in a random terrorist bombing. When the girl suddenly disappears, police and social services see it as another twelve-year-old runaway case. Not even Child's real parents, once Sherry tracks them down, seem too concerned about what has happened to her. But Sherry will not give up. Nothing, not even menacing letters and phone calls, can stop her from searching tirelessly for the girl, venturing into the dangerous city streets, only to discover that, in order to rescue Child, she must uncover the truth about her own daughter.