Taiwan Docs

All my life has been shaken and shaped by my family, a family that I didn't manage to and even refused to understand. That’s why I had been away from home for 24 years. It was a desperate resolution, which, I must admit, has brought me nothing but loneliness. Then, during the summer of 2017, my mother called me. It was something unexpected because we rarely spoke to each other. What was even more surprising was the reason for which she called: she wanted me to help arrange a photo shoot for a photo to be used at her funeral. This unexpected request awoke something deep inside me. She asked me to go back home, and I understood that she was getting ready to die. Suddenly, I felt that I wasn't ready to lose her, and I realized that I didn't have much time left to face the family problems that had haunted me for long. I decided to go back home and film our daily life like a family video that we had never had. This process has somehow eased the feeling of anger and emptiness that I had in myself for so long. Coming back to my family was complicated, but it somehow also pushed me to come back towards myself.