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 s 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 granaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.