Same Roots, Different Stories, features a conversation between three adults born in the same Filipino orphanage but raised in different families, countries, and cultures.

Filiation — how origins, paperwork, bloodlines, and memory intersect or fail to hold together.

Polyphony — multiple adoptees, multiple truths; identity as a collective and contradicting space.

Uncertainty — gaps, silences, and missing information as meaningful parts of the story.

Embodied Memory — how adoption lives in the body through gestures, rituals, anxieties, humour, and survival.

The film expands outward from these intimate conversations to explore belonging, migration, institutional archives, and what it means to reclaim one’s narrative as an adult. It is not a story of tragedy or resolution, but a study of complexity — of how people with “the same roots” live “different stories,” each one valid and deeply human.