Overview

With close-up access to patients and rarely seen footage from the OR, Transplant Stories is a four-part documentary series that follows the intimate and dramatic stories behind just a few of the thousands of organ transplants performed each year in Canada. We’ll see surgeons race against time to capture a heart, liver or lung from a dying donor and get it to a matched recipient in desperate need. People like Ben, a racing enthusiast with an auto-immune disorder who desperately needs a new set of lungs. And Angela, who is struggling with a condition that hardens her heart muscles and who urgently needs a transplant. Fighting to save them is an extraordinary team of professionals, from organ retrieval experts to dedicated surgeons.