Grieving and on her own, Tanya moved to another industrial town, where she found work as a packer at a factory and was assigned a tiny room in a workers’ dormitory.
Not long after a string of failed relationships, the story took a painful and unexpected turn: Tanya was hospitalized during pregnancy and learned, to her horror, that she too was carrying triplets.
Facing the same kind of impossible situation—no partner, no home of her own, and no real support—she suddenly understood her late mother’s decision with painful clarity and, through tears, signed the papers giving up her babies as well.
At that terrible turning point in her life, she had no idea that she too would one day regret the decision and spend years trying to find the children she had lost.
