Sheila Murray

Cyril Rowntree, a mixed race Jamaican, arrives in Toronto with a chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother's struggle to come to terms with the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Cyril feels a compelling connection to the boy and begins to look for the rest of Edward's story....