A tender documentary about the complexities of guilt and misunderstandings between an adoptee and her original family.
What does it mean to belong to a family or a country? What happens a decade (or two) after the reunion between an adoptee and their original family? In this documentary, a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, causing long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings to come to the surface alongside tenderness, humour, and tenacity. Born of frustration with love-washed adoption myths, this film centres adoptee voices and the original families erased by coercive systems. It doesn’t ask why parents give up their children from a perspective of guilt, instead focusing on the societal pressures and limited choices that lead people to relinquish their parenthood. As the makers of the film state: “In making this film, we aim to re-educate the public and remove the stigma associated with being an original mother or parent.”
With a Q&A after the screening, speaker TBA.
