With simple text and lovely photographs, Nancy D'Antonio tells about the adoption of Ariela Xiangwei. To learn about the land their new daughter comes from, the author and her husband travel in China. They go to the orphanage and for the first time hold Ariela Xiangwei in their arms. Finally, back home in the U.S., Ariela meets grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins and friends and begins her new life.