Hope Frozen

HOPE FROZEN: A QUEST TO LIVE TWICE is the story of a Thai family struggling to cope with their baby's diagnosis of brain cancer and the realization that she won't make it to her third birthday. Her scientist father becomes obsessed with finding treatments, but as the prognosis becomes dire, he switches his research to learning about cryogenic preservation. He works to persuade his wife to freeze their baby's brain so that what's left of their daughter can be thawed one day, perhaps hundreds of years later, when technology can bring her back safely and cure her cancer. The cryogenics team flies her to Arizona, where her head is surgically removed from her body and her brain is dehydrated and filled with a kind of anti-freeze for storage at a low temperature. Her older brother Matrix, a precocious, science-oriented teen, is devoted to helping bring her back. At age 16 he travels alone to the U.S. to learn more about cryogenics, and returns with the discouraging news that at least one expert believes there's only a .1% chance of bringing his sister back from her frozen state.