The risk of us

What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa comes into their lives with her inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs and finalize the adoption - or almost unthinkably give her up.