Almost Family

Julia Beckley (Brittany Snow) wuchs als Einzelkind auf. Ihre Welt wird komplett auf den Kopf gestellt, als herauskommt, dass ihr Vater noch unzählige andere Kinder hat: Er ist ein Spezialist für Fruchtbarkeitsforschung und hat insgeheim sein eigenes Erbgut bei den klinischen Tests verwendet und dadurch Dutzende Kinder gezeugt. Julia trifft auf zwei ihrer Halbschwestern – ihre frühere beste Freundin sowie eine ehemalige Olympia-Teilnehmerin. Mit deren Hilfe versucht sie, ihre Identitätskrise zu überwinden.

Almost Family is the story of an unusual family formed through extreme odds. Exploring such hot-button issues as identity, human connection and what it truly means to be a family, this unconventional dramedy taps directly into the zeitgeist, harnessing the emotional complications that new generations of IVF-bred children all face. Only child Julia Bechley finds her life turned upside down when her father, Leon Bechley reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children. Reeling from this explosive revelation, Julia discovers two new sisters - her former best friend, Edie Palmer, and an ex-Olympic athlete, Roxy Doyle. As these three young women begin to embrace their new reality, Julia must figure out what life is like without Leon by her side; Edie comes to grips with her burgeoning sexuality, as her marriage falters; and Roxy faces adulthood out of the spotlight. Against all odds, the three women will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family.