Film Description

Broke but determined to become a filmmaker, Erin came across a newspaper ad offering $3,000 to women willing to donate some of their eggs to infertile couples. What started out as a way to finance her first film became an engaging and intimate journey through some of the difficult personal and ethical realities created by modern reproductive technology. The filmmaker documents her hormone treatments leading up to and including the surgical extraction of her eggs. She also interviews a number of other egg donors, the doctor who administered her treatment, various members of her family and others, to get a wide range of opinions on the issue of ovum donation. Some feel that donating her eggs is the greatest gift she could give to another person, while others - including some of her family members - feel that she and women like her are being exploited at the expense of their own health and fertility. Their conversations also explore ethical issues around the commercialization of egg donation: are there some aspects of life that simply should not have a monetary value attached to them.