American Girl
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama about a girl navigating displacement, illness, and adolescent alienation against the backdrop of the 2003 SARS crisis in Taiwan.
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
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