Vice correspondent Gianna Toboni traveled to India to explore the country 's booming gestational surrogacy industry for the HBO series . In the US , surrogacy can cost hopeful parents upwards of $ 100,000 . The show follows a surrogate mother named Priya who is desperate to have her own child after she was diagnosed with cancer.
Vice correspondent Gianna Toboni traveled to India to explore the country 's booming gestational surrogacy industry for the HBO series . In the US , surrogacy can cost hopeful parents upwards of $ 100,000 . Many American couples are hiring surrogates in India because the cost is signficantly less than it would be in the Western World .