Film didáctico que apunta al sentido higienista de alertar sobre los peligros de la mosca que jaquea la vida humana de la época, a través de un estudio entomológico de la vida y obra de las moscas con una nítida microfotografía del insecto, ampliando cada uno de sus rasgos a niveles casi monstruosos.
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.