Overview

• Lisa Dyke learned through a DNA swab that she has three full siblings raised by her now-deceased birth parents, upending her sense of identity.
• Simon Prothero traced his birth mother to Neath only to be told she does not wish to meet him, illustrating the potential for painful outcomes.
• Genetic analysis linked three infants abandoned in East London between 2017 and 2019 as biological siblings, part of five newborn abandonment cases in England and Wales over four years.
• Critics applaud the show’s respectful off-camera delivery of difficult news but warn participants may regret discovering truths that cannot be undone.
• The series taps into breakthroughs in home DNA and global genealogy databases that have rapidly transformed adoptees’ quests for their origins.