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Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly, they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs, which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.
—John sacksteder <jsack@ka.net>
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In this movie, a family from the U.S. travels to Italy with their young son, Nicholas, and young daughter. Nicholas is fascinated about the story of Penelope and Greek mythology. Throughout the trip, he makes inferences about death. Is there a heaven? How do the dead people get across the river? But then on Highway 2, bandits shoot and injure Nicholas, and he becomes brain dead. The parents decide to donate his organs, which save seven other patients throughout Italy, which makes him the hero he always dreamed to be.
—kiella
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While on vacation in Italy, the Greens' rental car is attacked and their young son, Nicholas, is shot. In the aftermath and the media furor, the choices the Greens make, change not only the life of Angelo, a boy who needs a heart transplant, but also Italian opinions on organ donation.
—Kathy Li
