Driven to cure her own type 1 diabetes, a journalist secures unprecedented access to a radical stem cell treatment. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything to be first. In the world of biotech and medical science, there are no tidy solutions.

In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented access to a clinical trial– only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world.

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