Romania needed to reform its child rights policy, as one of the conditions for its future EU Membership. Large "orphanages" were closed and replaced by modern child protection alternatives.
The author kept a disry on her work for the European Commision that aimed to help Romania its child protection.
She soon found out that the intercountry adoption system in place was nothing short of a market for children, riddled by corruption. After international criticism this practice was halted temporarily. When redrafting laws, it became clear that in Romania's reformed child protection there was niether place nor need for intercountry adoptions.