For people looking for a missing parent, sibling, or other relative, years of questions can come down to one hope: that investigative journalist David Lomas can find what they could not.
Taking on cases that have reached a dead end, he starts with whatever remains: a name, a memory, a document, or a trail that may lead halfway around the world. Along the way, he uncovers family histories shaped by migration, adoption, culture, and events that changed lives long ago.
Finding the person is only part of the story. Each investigation reveals how a family became separated and what happened in the years since. Sometimes the search brings answers. Sometimes it brings people face to face after decades apart.
For those who have spent years wondering, knowing what happened can change everything.
"When we’re out having coffee people will comeup to him – and often it’s men – and they’ll say,‘I love your show. It makes me cry’."
– PRODUCER JOHN KEIR, QUOTED IN THE POST (NZ)
