Dustbin Baby is a powerful family drama which tells the heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting story of teenager April (Dakota Blue Richards), who sets out to discover where she came from, and on the way discovers where she belongs. April was abandoned in a dustbin as a baby. Now on her 14th birthday, after a row,she walks out on her foster mother, Marion (Juliet Stevenson) determined to discover her past, remembering and revisiting the people who have shaped her life. As Marion searches frantically for her, their journeys take them on a course that will change their lives for ever.