Philomena Lee was sworn to secrecy and forced to sign a document renouncing her claim to her child. Lee says” none of us wanted to give our babies up, none of us. But what else could we do? They just said `you have to sign these papers´”.
Later in life Philomena Lee tried to reunite with her son who had been adopted by an American couple when he was tree years old. It reenacts moments where she and her son ask the same nun for help in finding each other but are denied until it is too late.
A man called Sixsmith made a research. He tried to obtain the adoption records of the home, but discovered that the same nun had recently destroyed the records. He also found out that the adoption business had been the largest money-earner for convent where Philomena was housed in the 1950s. Sixsmith later produced a documentary called” Ireland´s lost babies”. Revealing the inadequate vetting practices of the Roman Catholic Church that led to some children being adopted be pedophiles. He also uncovered evidence of Irish government involvement in the adoption procedures by issuing more than one hundred passports each year for the adopted children traveling to America.
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