Margaret McMullan

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth maturely handles several distractions, among them: her mother's institutionalization because of mental instability; her father's female friend and his surgery; her grandfather's suicide; her lifeguarding job; her boyfriend.

The Zebra and the Bear is an intimate and impactful documentary film about how a mother’s fierce determination to save her daughter from a fatal, ultra-rare genetic disease called Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency (MSD) leads her on a journey to raise millions of dollars and drive the development of a pioneering gene-therapy treatment. Filmed over seven years, The Zebra and the Bear reveals the human story behind the science that may eventually save the lives of generations of children born with rare genetic disorders.