After the shocking discovery that 796 babies died in the Tuam mother and baby home, this film reveals how a government inquiry was sparked into 14 further homes. Neglect, high child mortality rates and lack of burial records have emerged at several homes including Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey. Mothers recount the shame and secrecy attached to pregnancy outside marriage and their long struggle to be reunited with the children many of whom claim were illegally adopted and in turn adopted children reveal how they were thwarted from accessing birth records.