Losing Isaiah

Drama in which a white social worker must face a legal battle with her adopted son’s black birth mother. Margaret Lerwin (Jessica Lange) and her husband Charles (David Strathairn) are delighted when they are able to adopt Isaiah, a baby for whom Margaret has been caring since he was found abandoned in a skip. All seems well for a few years, but then Khalia Richards (Halle Berry), Isaiah’s natural mother who was forced to leave him because of her drug addiction, tracks him down and demands him back. The reformed Khalia hires lawyer Kadar Lewis (Samuel L Jackson) to regain custody of her son, forcing Margaret into a court battle to prove which of Isaiah’s mothers will best serve his needs., A social worker adopts a baby found in a cardboard box beside a dumpster; two years later, she must face the birth mother’s attempt to regain custody., Social worker Margaret has been caring for little Isaiah since she found him in a skip. When the boy’s mother, reformed addict Khalia, tracks him down, Margaret must go to court to try to keep custody., The battles between adoptive parents and birth parents over custodial rights to a child are a modern legal and emotional powder keg, especially when the children are of a different race than their adopters. This provocative drama provides a wrenching examination of both sides of one such case between an African-American woman, a former crack addict, who threw her infant in the garbage while she went off to make a drug buy and the white upper-middle class couple who have adopted and been raising the child for the past four years., Drama in which a white social worker must face a legal battle with her adopted son’s black birth-mother. A couple find a baby abandoned in a skip, and are delighted when they are able to adopt him. All seems well until a few years later when the baby’s natural mother, who had left him because of her drug addiction, tracks him down and demands him back., Drama in which a white social worker must face a legal battle with her adopted son’s black birth-mother, An African-American baby, abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. Several years later, the baby’s mother finds out her son is not dead, as she thought before and goes to court to get him back., A white social worker is thrown into a moral and racial quagmire when her adopted black child is reclaimed by his biological mother., A social worker adopts a baby abandoned by her drug addicted mother. Years later the mother recovers and fights to regain custody of her child.