The Boy David Story

Duration: 1'28'53''

Synopsis

A documentary made between 1980 and 1999, telling the story of David, a Peruvian boy born with severe facial deformity who was abandoned as an infant, and then taken in by a Scottish surgeon who built him a face while bringing him up.

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