Originally the documentary was supposed to be a general retrospective of 9/11 survivors. As the producers met with people, many of them suggested the producers interview Tania Head due to her dramatic experience. Only after the interviews with Tania were recorded did the news officially break that Head's entire story, including her interviews for the documentary, was false. The producers immediately changed the focus of the documentary to Tania Head.
Linda Gormley is not a survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center. She was not in either tower when the planes hit. However, she did witness the event from the street, a fact that she never hid from the Survivor's group or Tanya Head. There are instances in this movie, and even more in the book, where Tanya Head brings up this fact to Linda in a malicious way.
This is the true story of Alicia Esteve (a.k.a. Tania Head) who posed as a survivor of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks for six years when in fact she was in Spain on 9/11/01.