Cameras follow four British men who have collectively helped to conceive more than 175 babies by donating their sperm to women who contact them via unregulated websites.
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The people behind it
Victoria Elliott
self (voice)
At age 29, documentary filmmaker Sara Lamm discovered that she was conceived via sperm donor. Using her skills as an investigator she decides to dig ever deeper to uncover where half of her DNA comes from.
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