Kara Hagedorn, a 40 years old zoologist, was at war with the world. For years she had tried in vain to stop the destruction of wildlife and our eco-system. She didn’t want to bear children into a world bound for self-destruction.
On a Tuesday morning in 1997 those two lives converged. It was the beginning of a great friendship. The film describes the intense partnership of Sunshine and Kara, who are building a nest together every year. Kara replaces Sunshine’s infertile eggs with chicken eggs, so Sunshine can have the experience of motherhood. It’s the unlikely story of interspecies love, trust and communication: a hawk who learnt to trust the hated humans again and accepts chickens as her chicks (who would be her natural food). A human who has adopted a hawk instead of her own children and helps her brood – and a bunch of baby chicks who seem to have forgotten all about their natural fear of hawks – and that they actually don’t eat dead rats from mom’s hawk-beak…