The documentary was validating in that it said what a lot of us, Korean adoptees, have been saying and feeling for years: we’ve never fully believed the stories we have been told were true, nor could we trust those telling them to us. Our paperwork made us “adoptable”. It was a brochure, not a factual record.

The system turned children into people with no history, no parents and no ties. Many adoptees will never know the basic facts of their lives, their birthdays, their birth parents, if they were wanted or truly abandoned, because their documents are false. ~Hanna Lee