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"go home"
Separation is always frustrating, and returning home is difficult.
Will the world be the same when the sun rises?

The film vividly depicts the struggles of Vietnamese migrant workers in Taiwan, both during their migration and their return home.

Vietnam, a country with a blend of European and Chinese colonial influences, has only just recovered from the financial crisis a few years ago, boasting boundless business opportunities and booming consumer spending. It is also home to a large number of overseas migrant workers.
They are active actors crossing borders, calculating the pros and cons, making choices, and boldly taking action under extremely limited circumstances. However, in a foreign land, surrounded by shadowy environments, a closed labor environment, unstable residency status, limited social networks, and the inability to freely change employers—all structural factors—become unpredictable man-made traps on their journey. There's no turning back from this dangerous situation.

Once, "home" was the goal they sought to protect while working overseas, but the road home is so long and arduous. Even when they return, home is never a complete concept; it is internally fragmented and tangled...
Celebrity Recommendations
Guo Mingzhu (member of the People's Angry Action Alliance)
Nguyen Van Hung (Vietnamese priest, founder of VMWBO)
Luo Yiwen (Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, National Tsing Hua University) sincerely recommends

2014-09-01

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