JOIN the Open Door Crisis Centre at Ster Kinekor, Gateway for the launch of the acclaimed new movie, Bypass, on Saturday, 13 May at 5.30pm.
Bypass is the story of a cardiac surgeon, Lisa Cooper (Natalie Becker-Aakervik), who saves lives on her operating table every day, but is totally powerless to save the life of her only son, Sam.
While inspired by true events that take place around the world as people are bought and sold for their organs, Bypass is a fictional story and is Africa’s first medical thriller that will keep you gripped from the opening scene until the closing frame.
With only 0.2 per cent of the country on the organ donor list, Sam’s chances of getting a liver transplant are overwhelmingly stacked against him.
When even that hope is severed Dr. Lisa faces the most difficult decision of her life, to bypass the institutionalised medical system.
She turns her back on common sense, medical ethics and values and decides to do whatever it takes to save Sam’s life.
A decision that leads her right into the heart of conspiracy, danger and an international organ trafficking syndicate.
Despite the increasing growth of this heinous practice on the international market, few movies have been made about the subject.
Actor Deon Lotz, who portrays Dr Wright, one of the surgeons at the New Day Clinic, added, “Besides the sex trade and drug trafficking, organ trafficking is one of the biggest growing problems facing the world. I am surprised that more movies aren’t being made about this subject.”
Perhaps one of the most poignant messages comes from actor Greg Kriek, who plays Martin Fischer, one of Lisa’s colleagues. “Bypass is not just another movie, it gives you a slice of life and exposes the underbelly of an issue that is happening right under our noses.”
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