故事发生在第二次世界大战期间,西蒙(比尔·斯卡斯加德 Bill Skarsgård 饰)成长于一个普通的工人家庭之中,虽然父亲和母亲都深深的爱护和关怀着西蒙,但是在这个家庭之中,西蒙始终感受到一股梳理与陌生,连他自己都不知道这是怎么一回事。 西蒙热爱阅读,可是他的家庭中却缺少这种气氛,不顾父亲的反对,西蒙决定进入学校学习。在学校里,西蒙结识了名叫伊萨克(卡尔·林勒托普 Karl Linnertorp 饰)的犹太男孩,伊萨克的父亲是一名书上,趣味相投的两人很快就成为了无话不谈的好友。一次偶然中,西蒙震惊的发现自己并非父母的亲生骨肉,他决定踏上寻找亲人的旅途。
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.