One Child is the compelling story of a young woman drawn into a deadly race against time when she returns to her Chinese birthplace. Mei Leung, a first-born Chinese girl adopted by an American mother and British father, is asked to return to her birthplace, Guangzhou, when her birth mother desperately seeks her assistance in saving her son, who has been wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. How far will Mei go to help the woman who gave her away and the brother she's never met?