Rebecca Eaton has the sort of job you don’t talk about at parties. She’s a lawyer for children, a defender of the defenceless, a voice for the voiceless. At times, she even needs to protect parents from themselves.
It’s grim work, but the law is there to protect people, right? That’s what she thinks until it fails her and a child, and she finds herself caught in the grey areas of New Zealand’s surrogacy laws. She must find a way to protect both herself and her clients, and face what motherhood means to her. Where is her breaking point?
She might be about to find out ...