Imagine that all you need to live is a new heart. The surgeons are standing by. People are dying all around you. The procedure is simple. But no one has ticked ‘donate my organs’ on their card. So you wait. Then you die. This happens every day. This documentary explores the dilemma.
On the battlefields of Iraq, Sgt. Samuel Tapia of the United States Army hit a roadside bomb. The explosion burned over 50% of his entire body. He lost his left fingers but gained a second chance.
It is almost time for humanity to start building humans. The stuff of science fiction has become more of an ethical debate than a theoretical one. Science is on the cusp of producing a limitless supply of body parts. Damaged, aging skin? Botox has nothing on this.
This documentary film offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.
We follow the emotional journeys of ethnic minorities desperate to change their bodies, as well as showing incredible surgery including pioneering limb lengthening procedures.
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