“If it will be a boy, he will call Zeno”. The girls had no doubt about the name, even if he was still an idea. It was early April 2022, Martina and Sara were walking on the streets of Barcelona, hand in hand, dreaming about their future baby, feeling free in a foreign city as they cannot feel at home, in Italy. In a week, Sara will have the oocytes pick-up operation, she was still in forces, but she had to take care to don’t doing big efforts. She started the hormone therapy some days before, and that day, in Barcelona, they met for the first time the doctor who will follow them during the path of the medically assisted procreation.

Martina and Sara were in love for a long time and, in 2017, they had the chance to do the civil union. Their dreams have not ceased, and the desire to give their love to a child was very strong. Someone said it was not possible, but after a very thorough search, they understand that in foreign countries their biggest dream could become a reality.

Indeed, in Italy is not possible to access to PMA for lesbian couples or for single women because, according to law no. 40/2004 (one of the most restrictive of Europe), assisted procreation techniques can only be accessed by adult couples of different sexes, married or cohabiting, of potentially fertile age, both living.
This law had a side effect, a phenomenon called "reproductive tourism": countries’ citizens in which PMA is forbidden to them (Italy is one of the main ones) go to foreign countries where they are allowed to do it. Favourite destinations are Spain, Belgium and Denmark. These routes are long and expensive, so there are also people who do it through different roads, perhaps informal and less safe.

They decided to go to Barcelona and to try the ROPA method (Reception of Oocytes from Partner) which consists that one of the women “donates” her oocytes to her partner and this last hosts the pregnancy thanks to FIV. In this case, Sara is the oocytes donor and Martina will host the pregnancy.

This project aims to demonstrate the difficult path these two women had to take to become mothers in their homeland. A journey made possible by people who do not stop in front of an obsolete legislation, people who believe in the freedom of dreams and in the freedom of life.