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.
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