Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some truly had no family, others were simply taken away.

The innate desire to understand where they came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots and reclaim their identities. In the process, they reveal the meticulously coordinated business behind the “orphan rescue” mission, which separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands innocent children.

Human rights violations, falsified documents and lack of consent tore families apart for decades – will the adoptees manage to trace back their origins? Where will the search for truth take them?

With exclusive access, and made by an award-winning team, this mini-series reveals the scale of this growing scandal which continues to make headlines today.