Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex begin | dG1fajNOQWpyRW9kU2c
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00:00An adopted child is really a wolf raised by humans.
00:09We are loved children, bastards, unrespectable by blood.
00:13And ours is the world of magic, fairy tales and legends.
00:22Adrian is a filmmaker from Montreal, but born in Newfoundland, and he's starting a journey
00:28and you don't know where this is going to take you.
00:31Early 70s, there were hundreds of young children being relinquished for adoption on a daily
00:37basis.
00:38I mean, Newfoundland's famous for trading children around, right?
00:41Like, they just sort of, like, farm them out.
00:44Unbelievable.
00:45I was told that you're in a hospital.
00:47Yeah, they didn't tell you the truth.
00:51My biological mother, she was 20 years old.
00:56She was a quiet girl.
00:58That's your mom.
01:00I believe she was a soldier.
01:03She did create problems with the family.
01:07I don't understand what my origin story was, but it's turning into something else.
01:15We don't have any choice but to close the file here.
01:19Do you think you should always look for the truth?
01:22I think the truth can fuck you up.
01:24But if you're not interested in the truth, then you're not interested in living here.
01:28At your best starting point, it's with the police.
01:30Someone has called in, someone has found her.
01:33The way I see it, absolutely everything was taken from her.
01:40My journey and her journey have too many similarities.