Losing Isaiah

“Who decides what makes a mother?”

Khaila Richards (Halle Berry), a single mother deep in a crack addiction, wants only one thing after she wakes up and finds her baby missing from where she left him. He has been taken in by Margaret Lewin (Jessica Lange), a social worker, and her husband Charles, who adopt him. Stephen Gyllenhaal picks up years later, when a clean, employed Khaila walks into court to claim her son, and Margaret is the one standing in her way.