2024-05-24
7
103 min
china 1970s cultural revolution based on true story eye specialist blindness nashville tennessee communism traumatic childhood 1960s communist china acid burning 2000s rural setting independent film absurd disrespectful abusive stepmother
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.