In a miraculous testament to current technology, Saroo uses Google Earth to trace his long vanished steps from his village to Calcutta, in a quest to find his way back to his childhood home.Įarly childhood experiences are formative and essential to development, and Saroo’s Australian parents understand and support his bittersweet quest for answers and closure. In early adulthood Saroo (Dev Patel) is understandably haunted by memories of his early childhood trauma lost in India and separated from his family-of-origin. But it is a deliberate and arguably elevated form of parental devotion and family love. It is not always as organic as other forms of parenting. Raising an adopted child is not always easy. He is then adopted by a loving Australian couple who raise him with tenderness, compassion and joy.Ī key psychological message of Saroo’s stunning trajectory is that adoption can and does work, even when a child is no longer an infant at the age of adoption, and even when there has been significant trauma.
Saroo endures a harrowing journey among Calcutta’s many homeless and exploited orphans before landing in an orphanage, unable to remember proper the name of his hometown. To make some extra money, Saroo and his brother head off toward an unsupervised evening adventure that unfolds tragically when Saroo gets stuck on an abandoned train headed to Calcutta. Saroo is five years old and living happily in an Indian village with his older brother, younger sister and mother. This haunting and visually stunning tale begins in a remote Indian village in 1986. Garth Davis’ award winning 2016 film Lion, adapted from Saroo Brierley’s autobiography “A Long Way Home”, tells a remarkable and epic true story of international adoption that frames compelling messages about what it means to adopt, raise and love a child. When parents are deciding or preparing to adopt, questions about bonding, heredity, and early childhood trauma are often a part of the conversation. Even for some who do not struggle with fertility, adoption is sometimes a preferred pathway to parenthood. And the decision to adopt is a meaningful and important option that is often discussed in therapy. The process of pregnancy and becoming parents feels immensely private for most couples who struggle with fertility. It is, therefore, not surprising that infertility and adoption are common therapy themes in our practice. DC dwellers tend to marry later and so they often decide to start families will into their late thirties and early forties. As a therapist in Washington, DC, I work with many career focused individuals and couples.
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