奈良美智,日本著名现代艺术家,其最著名的作品便是那个始终流露着孤独和愤怒的情感的大头小女孩。“孤独和疏理感”给了他创作的原动力,并最终带其踏上成功的阶梯。如今,奈良美智在世界上许多国家都有着为数众多的粉丝,那一幅幅真情画作在他们的心中激起共鸣,愤怒的小女孩恰如每个人灵魂深处最躁动的部分。
进入新千年,奈良美智终于带着他的孩子举行了世界巡展。在此之后,他回到老家青森投入到“A to Z”回顾展的准备工作中去。摄像机跟随着这位忘我的艺术家走遍世界各地,见证了粉丝们对他的崇敬与爱戴,真实记录了他创作中的点点滴滴,更触摸到他内心深处那不着痕迹的转变。只有时间周而复始,永未结束……
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.