Alex Gilbert is an adoptee helping others adopted around the world reconnect with their family roots and birth countries. Filmed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Iowa, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and New Zealand.
Emma has fetal alcohol syndrome; she was adopted from a Russian orphanage at three years old and raised in New Zealand. In her 20s, she returns to her homeland to find her family.
We follow the life of two Russian adoptees for a few days, one who was adopted into a New Zealand family and one in a domestic Russian family. An in-depth view of both sides.
Alex Gilbert was born in Arkhangelsk, Russia on April 1, 1992 as Guzovskoy Alexander Viktorovich. Alex Gilbert is a Russian-born, New Zealand-based adoption advocate. His name was changed when he was adopted and brought to New Zealand in 1994. He is the founder of the organisation I'm Adopted which he established in 2015.
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