Describes the reunion of Helga Schneider and her mother, who left Helga, her siblings, and their father and became a Nazi SS "Corrections" officer at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.
Miranda and Mama spend a fun day at the beach building castles and catching sand crabs, and Miranda learns that just like the sand and the sea, she and her mother will always be together.
A little African-American girl is tucked into bed by her mother, who sings to her of other children, as well as baby animals, sleeping snugly in their care of their mothers and fathers.