Summary of Lucca’s World’s Plot
This gripping Mexican drama is an adaptation of ‘The Two Hemispheres of Lucca’ by Barbara Anderson. The film captures the essence of the struggle of raising a child with cerebral palsy and the potential treatment options that could help ease Lucca’s symptoms.
The treatment procedure is the primary focus of the plot in Lucca’s Story where Barbara takes her family to India, where a new experimental procedure offered some hope to Lucca’s condition. The hope was that the new procedure would allow him to form more brain connections. This, in turn, would enable him to progress and possibly form words, eat, drink, and even giggle. In Lucca’s World, all these basic milestones that children naturally achieve in life are given precious value and meaning, and the film is stronger for celebrating the countless monumental steps that Lucca takes.
Does Lucca start to show signs of regression?
The night after Barbara gets fired from her job, Lucca has another mini-seizure. It only lasts 25 seconds this time, but it serves as a serious warning for what might happen if his therapy is discontinued. His seizures have been reduced by 70% of the trims in India, but this also means that if these continue, this could nullify all the progress they have made with the Cytotron trial.
Andres persuades Barbara to allow Lucca to flourish and to enable him to be himself. He wishes her to let go and allow Lucca to have what’s best for him. This is hard for Barbara to accept, considering that she has devoted so much in trying to provide him the best possible life. She has always felt like a failure for not being more forceful during labor, and so she’s sort of trying to resolve that remorse with this.
What is the reason behind Barbara’s guilt?
Barbara felt guilty for a very tough reason – her going into respiratory arrest still got her through a rough period. The doctor mid her labor, pulled her son out and did everything possible to help him. They were at the brink of death, but some miracle or divine intervention granted permission for both to survive. With the hope that some good forces are at work, forces that deal in miracles, let her exist still at least is a big factor in what has held her back staring in the dark tunnel with no light. This makes her appreciate life.
Barbara later calls for John, one of the men involved with Kumar’s testing and discovers that all the plans for the Baltimore clinic were a scam. Jaramillo turned out to be a fake without a purpose. He didn’t even pay for an appointment, but used a Johns Hopkins domain email to market the fraud, and no one knew him at the domain.
While Barbara was trying to find more details, she learned Jaramillo had scammed a lot of people in his life, including John and Dr Kumar, who were paid as fakes to endorse him as the Cytotron inventor. What doesn’t Barbara do?
Barbara is a woman on a mission and wants to take him down. Jaramillo clearly understands the legal matters, and to set things in motion, Barbara sends an email to him with her findings. Troubleshoot along the way, and with the aid of the Health secretary, she calls in to discuss setting up a meeting to talk about Cytotron trials.
Barbara arrives along with Lucca, but not everything is looking bright. It turns out they only wanted to approve the use of the machine for oncological purposes. They would not allow use for Neurological purposes and switch on focus to cancer treatment. “For the good of the majority, other than individual cases.”
So while this is a win, it is not even close to a win for Barbara… until Dr. Kumar calls her and tells her the door is always open and the Cytotron will cost her nothing in India. Barbara has been forced to do so much in the first place, and as a result, gets told there is treatment for her and Lucca after all. There is no escaping this, but she decided ahead of time that she wanted to bask in the joy of raising Lucca and get rewarded for her decision the moment she hears him call her “Mama”.
How does Lucca’s World end?
As the story concludes, we find that Lucca, along with his famil,y took 3 additional trips to India and right now, Lucca is completing elementary school and is in the same grade with his sibling, Bruno. Lucca has gone 5 years without epilepsy and is now able to walk and talk.
In August of 2021, Barbara, Andres, and the other investors purchased 2 cycotron machines and opened the first clinic outside of India.
So in the end, Lucca can undergo his treatment, and the family’s sacrifices are, in the best case scenario, providing hope to many others too.
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