his documentary recounts one of the darker sides of globalisation, the international illegal organ trade, an uncomfortable truth that is both widespread and flourishing. H.O.T underscores one of the biggest disparities of the 21st century, where one part of the world becomes ever richer while sterile, and the other poorer but fertile. The protagonists of the documentary are men, women and children, of different cultures, religions and social statuses, who, with their individual stories of desperation, are somehow interlinked with the larger planetary events. On one side the necessity to survive poverty at any price, on the other, those willing to pay whatever price, to survive. Unfortunately for many, that amount of money that promises a better life, often represents a momentary and fleeting illusion…life does not improve and instead plunges those individuals further into desperation. H.O.T. recounts of an invisible reality, which enriches. The documentary follows the true stories of those who have been pushed to taking this step. Parallel lives which have as common denominator poverty, the various factors played by; the black market, corrupt doctors, patients who won’t stop at anything when their life is in jeopardy, their return home, the secret they keep, the return home of the donators, the use they make of the money earned, and how their poor and small community reacts to this phenomenon.
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