Amy and Ano didn't know they were twins sold at birth. 19 years later, a video changed everything.

It started with a pierced eyebrow, blue hair and a video on TikTok.

That's all it took for two Georgian twins, separated at birth and sold to different families, to finally find their way back to each other after almost two decades.

For Amy Khvitia, the first hint something was amiss came when she was 12. Watching Georgia's Got Talent at her godmother's house near the Black Sea, she spotted a girl who looked exactly like her performing a jive dance. The resemblance was so striking that people started ringing her mum, asking why Amy was dancing under a different name.

But when Amy mentioned it to her family, as she told the BBC, they brushed it off with a casual "everyone has a doppelgänger".

Fast-forward seven years to November 2021, when Amy posted a TikTok video showing off her new eyebrow piercing and striking blue hair. Three hundred kilometres away in Tbilisi, a girl named Ano Sartania was sent the video by a friend. The resemblance was uncanny, and through a university WhatsApp group and Facebook, the two finally connected.

As the two girls spoke, they realised they shared more than just their startlingly similar looks.

Both were born at Kirtskhi maternity hospital (which no longer exists) in western Georgia, though their birth certificates showed different dates. Both loved dancing, both had the same hairstyle, and they even had the same genetic bone disorder called dysplasia.

Watch: Long-lost identical twin sisters Amy and Ano reunite with birth mother. Post continues after video.

Their first meeting occurred at Rustaveli Metro Station in Tbilisi. As soon as they saw each other, they knew they were twins.

"It was like looking in a mirror, the exact same face, exact same voice. I am her and she is me," Amy recalled.

"I don't like hugs, but I hugged her," added Ano. "I always felt like there was something or someone missing in my life. I used to dream about a little girl in black who would follow me around and ask me about my day."

The girls confronted their respective families, and they finally learnt the truth. They had been adopted a few weeks apart in 2002.

Separately, both Amy and Ano's mothers were told the same story by a friend: there was an unwanted baby at the local hospital, and they could pay the doctors to take her home. The mothers both said they didn't know the girls were twins, or that acquiring a baby this way was illegal.

"It's a crazy story," Amy said. "But it's true."

Amy and Ano's story is just one thread in a massive tapestry of tragedy. The twins are among an estimated 100,000 Georgian babies who were sold in a decades-long trafficking scandal.

The scheme, which operated from the early 1950s until 2005, saw thousands of infants stolen from hospitals and sold on the black market.

The scale of this dark chapter in Georgia's history is staggering. It wasn't just a few corrupt individuals — the operation involved people from all walks of life, from taxi drivers to government officials. Parents were often told their babies had died, with some even being shown frozen corpses from the morgue to sell the lie.

In 2006, Georgia finally cracked down on trafficking by strengthening its laws to make illegal adoptions more difficult. But for thousands of families, the damage was already done.

The Georgian government launched an investigation in 2022, interviewing more than 40 people, though progress has been slow due to the historical nature of the cases and lost data. Despite multiple investigations over the years, including one in 2003 that led to several arrests, justice remains elusive for most victims.

Today, a Facebook group called Vedzeb ("I'm searching" in Georgian) has become a lifeline for families torn apart by these illegal adoptions. With more than 230,000 members, it's helped hundreds of families reunite — though countless others are still searching for answers.

The group was created by journalist Tamuna Museridze in 2021 after she discovered she was adopted. While clearing out her late mother's house, Museridze found her birth certificate with incorrect details. Over the years, she has helped reunite hundred of families — but she's still searching for her own.

For Amy and Ano, their journey led them to Germany, where they discovered their birth mother, Aza, was living with another daughter. DNA tests confirmed their relationship, but the reunion was bittersweet. Aza claimed she'd been told her twins died after she fell into a post-birth coma.

While the twins found both each other and their birth mother, their story is part of a much larger movement seeking truth and accountability for Georgia's stolen children.

Feature Image: Instagram/_tatulikhvitia/BBC.