- 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.
- A baby in the Amazonian jungle of Peru suffering horrific facial disfigurement. Effectively kidnapped from a paupers hospital in Lima by Swiss charity worker Martine Schopfer, David is introduced to Scottish plastic surgeon Ian Jackson, who then undertakes a series of groundbreaking procedures to reconstruct Davids face. Having relocated to America, Jackson and his family decide to adopt the boy but encounter a nightmare of red tape which forces Marjorie Jackson to venture deep into the Peruvian jungle to find Davids biological parents. David Lopez Jackson has had more than 100 operations to reconstruct his face.
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