Originally the documentary was supposed to be a general retrospective of 911 survivors. As the producers met with people, many of them suggested the producers interview Tania Head due to her dramatic experience. Only after the interviews with Tania were recorded did the news officially break that Head's entire story, including her interviews for the documentary, was false. The producers immediately changed the focus of the documentary to Tania Head.
Tania claimed to have gotten a lawyer and had a judge marry her and Dave posthumously because they had planned to get married on October 11, 2001 and they had already obtained the marriage license. Posthumous marriages are possible in the United States, however, Tania would have had to provide to the court compelling evidence that she and Dave intended to marry before his death. This evidence could be a marriage license obtained before Dave's death, however, since Tania fabricated her story, she could not have had a valid license to wed Dave. Posthumous marriages in the US are not recognized under Federal law. And they can be contested by children, parents or any other interested party of the deceased.
Linda Gormley is not a survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center. She was not in either tower when the planes hit. However, she did witness the event from the street, a fact that she never hid from the Survivor's group or Tanya Head. There are instances in this movie, and even more in the book, where Tanya Head brings up this fact to Linda in a malicious way.
This is the true story of Alicia Esteve (a.k.a. Tania Head) who posed as a survivor of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks for six years when in fact she was in Spain on 9/11/01.
Tanya Head stated that she was always approached by family members of the victims of 9/11 asking her about how their loved one died. Ms. Head stated she didn't want to tell them because "who wants to talk about body parts". Wanting to know the details of the death of a loved one is common in survivor's guilt.