I'm making this film to amplify the adoptee narrative about adoption. I began production in the Spring of 2017, in my third trimester. It was a time of strife among other adopted people in my family, who were dealing with addiction. I wanted to share the contents of the book 'The Primal Wound' with them, but knew they probably wouldn't read it, however I thought they might watch a film. That's when I realized no one had made a documentary about the Verrier's landmark book. I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time and realized the author, Nancy Verrier, lived 45 minutes away from me. That's when I reluctantly accepted my fate, that I was the one who had to make this film. Nancy doesn't really do interviews and it took six months before she would agree to let me film her. (Now, we're good friends and text every week). David Brodzinsky, (author of Being Adopted, etc.) also lives in the Bay Area and agreed to an interview. When my friend said she was taking filmmaker Nico Opper's film class at Stanford and that she'd give me an intro, I couldn't believe it! The film was sort of making itself. My boss at the time told me about her childhood friend who was currently documenting her reunion story on facebook and it was quite the story. That's how I met Doris, who, you guessed it, also lived nearby! She came down to Palo Alto and we filmed for 3 days. Then, transracial adoptee and psychologist, Dr. Amanda Baden came on board in early 2021 and I knew I had to finish cutting the film together. So, a year after letting the footage live on my computer untouched, I started the daunting task of creating a storyline out of the 25+ hours of footage I'd acquired. There was no film crew. It was just me and Sara Davis (published author of NY Times reviewed 'The Scapegoat') at the big dawg interviews; me placing the mics, filming, Sara getting releases signed, manning the 2nd camera; me thinking it didn't matter that much because no one would ever see this footage anyways. (Imposter syndrome, much?) When I finally finished the film in late summer 2021, someone in the adoptee community saw it and pointed out that this is the first film about The Primal Wound to be co-produced by an adoptee and her biological mother. A fact lost on me through the whole process! But, that fact is significant in that it's usually non-adopted people telling the narrative of adoption. The Primal Wound was published in 1993 and is still selling briskly around the world. There is demonstrable global demand from adoptees and adoptee-centric organizations for the film all over the world. In a recent Q&A (September 2021) the main questions were "Why haven't you been on CNN, yet?" and "How can we help get this film out there?" I've never attended a Q&A so focused on distribution! My hope is that adoptees can finally be seen, and the issues that lead to adoptees being overrepresented in rehab facilities, mental health facilities, and prison will finally be addressed. Adoptees are four times more likely than non-adopted people to die by suicide, and 8x more likely to struggle with addiction and mental health. I hope this film helps adoptees, both in my family and in the broader community. You cannot heal an unacknowledged wound.