A real-life story told in “Twinsters”, a pair of twins separated at birth found each other and reunited thanks to the Internet. Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier are identical twins who were born on November 19th, 1987, in Busan, South Korea, and were adopted by different families shortly after birth and raised on different continents. Each of them had a Korean foster mom to take care of them, …show more content…
There is a trip to South Korea, in which they sign up to go to, for a gathering of adoptees, where all the people in the world that were adopted from Korea could go and spend time with all the other adoptees. The twins also had a reunion with the foster mothers who cared for the two briefly after they were born, before they had been adopted.
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They felt like they needed to search for their biological mom, but it was all bittersweet, as she still denied of her ever having twins or kids at all at that time, and giving them up for adoption.
Impressing as it sounds the movie evolved from being about one thing – the reunion of the long-lost sisters – to being about something even more profound: the power of human connection. Both Samantha and Anaïs were fortunate to be adopted by caring families, and grew up loved and appreciated by their families. Samantha was, perhaps, the luckier one, since the Futterman's had two sons when they adopted her, giving her two older brothers and that much more affection. On the other hand, Anaïs childless parents loved their daughter no less. As the film makes clear, neither sister would likely have had the life they now lead if they had stayed with their birth