There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her
daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How
to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for
ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters -
Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the
daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in
pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco;
women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a
past and a future half a world apart.
