Ship of Theseus (2012)
How do you know where you end and where your environment begins?
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 2H 23M
Director : Anand Gandhi
Writer : Anand Gandhi
Synopsis
Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.
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