| Summary: | 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 own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial -- only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything to be first. More than a decade in the making, the first-person, verité film is about science, but it's also an emotional, multilayered quest that transcends the genre. It's about believing that the good of the many outweigh the good of the few. It's about innovating in ways we didn't think possible.
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