爱子归来

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.                                    清晨，熙攘的菜市场里，老摊主热情地吆喝新鲜蔬果，并幽默地打趣道：“今天的西红柿红得像挂满笑脸。”顾客们纷纷驻足、拍照，整个市场因这轻松调侃而布满了活力，每一口新鲜的蔬菜似乎都带着快乐的魔力，热和了人们的心田。                                　　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.