A one-hour film that examines the foster care crisis in which an estimated 300,000 abused and neglected children are harbored in foster care throughout the U.S. Many are victims of foster care drift as they move from foster home to foster home and grow up without family ties. The annual cost of foster care amountsd to over two billion dollars annually. The film examines the circumstances of foster care, and profiles children in institutional care as well as in foster homes.