Boy adopted in the bush maybe in New Zealand

Alex Gilbert is an adoptee helping others adopted around the world reconnect with their family roots and birth countries. Filmed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Iowa, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and New Zealand.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Over 11,000 people who were born in Sri Lanka have been adopted overseas. Many of them have grown with little knowledge of the people or culture they left behind.