![]() ![]() “If someone asks where we’re from-we can say anything,” Lucy tells Sam as they set their sights on a distant town, evoking that old American dream of a clean-wiped slate. ![]() As these children of Chinese immigrants move across California they’re constantly reminded of the vulnerability of the female body in a land dominated by men, and of the racist structures inherent to the creation of this country: when Lucy witnesses the celebration following the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, “a picture is drawn for the history books, a picture that shows none of the people who look like her, who built it.” But they’re also witness to their own resourcefulness, and the power of their own will. A pair of young siblings, contemplative Lucy and headstrong Sam, traverse the west in the last days of the Gold Rush they’re attempting to properly bury their father’s body, their mother already gone. ![]()
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