When Neil Allport left Australia with his 8 year old son Robert – he left his toddler daughter – Jackie Ann Roeser behind.
22 year old Cassandra was raised by her mother Rhapsody – in small town Motueka. Her parents had met when her father, Australian Brett Heard was in New Zealand on a working holiday.
Floral Student, Alice Holly's mother died five years ago and now she is looking for her father Wayne. He used to visit regularly when she was a little girl and even gave her gifts.
Justin, now 41, was too young to remember his father Greg. He last saw him when he was a year old.
33 year old Taara is a mother of two pre-school daughters. She was born in Nelson – the result of a whirlwind romance between her mother Penelope and Fijian Indian Mani Lal.
22 year old Reagan's parents were together when he was born – but not for long.
Shaun Moorcroft was born in Manchester in 1967 and adopted by a family who soon immigrated to New Zealand.
38 year old Shelly's birth parents had been in a relationship for a while when she was conceived.
Kirk, 35 is married with a 2.5 year old son and a baby daughter.
She has never met her mother, now the journey to find Carolyn's mother turns into Missing Pieces' most complex search across England, and unearths a remarkable tale of inheritance.
Born Maori, but raised by an adopted Samoan family, we go on a journey to find Philip's Whanau. Later, the difficult search for Jodie's dad in Australia.
Will a son accept his father as a changed man after a 23-year absence? Plus, Sapphire never got to know her dad and last year Missing Pieces provided the tip off she'd been waiting for.
Missing Pieces travels to exotic Dubai and reveals the truth to a daughter who has waited 13 years to find out whether her father is the man she thinks he is....but has been too afraid to confront.
Terry is is looking for a child he fathered when he was about 15.
A search for a father takes the team to the rainforests of Ecuador.
North Shore pensioner Eileen Masters seeks the baby she put up for adoption in England 50 years ago. And the team help track down a man due an inheritance.
A woman seeks answers four decades after she and her sister were left at different orphanages.
A mother and daughter struggle to find forgiveness after 25 years apart.
Bryce wants to know why he was left lying in a cot crying for three days after his mother walked out. And Music teacher Trinity is seriously ill and looking for the dad she has never met.
Nouvel comes to NZ to find her backpacker dad who left her mother pregnant in the Philippines. And sisters Amanda and Leteisha want answers from the dad who has not contacted them for 17 years.
For 50 years Mike was lied to about why his mother abandoned him as an infant, now he finally finds out the truth. And Cecelia gets answers to what happened to her father.
A Waiuku mum gets a cultural shock when the search for her father takes her to the Poverty Bay settlement of Whatatutu. And Sarah searches for the mother that put her up for adoption.
Brother Wayne and Tony Kemp want to ask their father why he never tried to find them. And Auckland twins Sophie and Laura Langston attempt to find their family, especially their dad. Final.