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Sixteen-year-old Alex Kirtridge's white family tells her, "We don't even see color." They seem much more concerned with her future as a baseball star than her identity as an African American. But a new romance and the discovery of letters from her biological father raise questions for Alex. Gibney skillfully explores the topic of transracial adoption and identity in this thought-provoking coming-of-age story.