She's selling pieces of herself to survive. The buyers? Way worse.
Desperate for money, Lizette pursues the dark and thankless world of organ donation, hoping for a better life.
Acting
Meryll Soriano's hollow-eyed desperation is devastating.
Direction
Meily finds beauty in Manila's medical underworld shadows.
Director
Mark Meily
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Donor exposes the Philippines' real 'kidney belt' phenomenon, where entire towns survive on organ sales to foreign buyers.
Meily shot in actual Manila slum clinics; that claustrophobic authenticity? Not production design. That's documentary infiltration.
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