The Search for Tristan's Mum

Trading in your kid! In Ireland, like other countries where the process of adopting a child is a long and traumatic journey - the story of toddler Tristan Dowse adopted and abandoned into an Indonesian orphanage outraged the nation. Journalist Ann McElHinney set out to search for Tristan's mum, asking awkward questions about the way international adoptions are organized and the role money and corruption plays in the process - questioning the idea that international adoption is always the rescue of a baby.