The present is made possible by the past.
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.
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