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What Happens Next
Feature documentaryCinematic recreationsIn production
One DNA test. Nineteen siblings. Twelve mothers. One father.
A man takes a DNA test looking for the one thing his adoption records never gave him: his family's health history. What he finds instead is a father who left children across twelve families, a birth mother buried in an unmarked grave, half-siblings who shut the door, and a secret kept by the parents who raised him. What Happens Next asks whether any of us can escape what is written in our blood.
Not a reunion story.
Vision reel.