Uprooted

Ruth is a young girl living in Canada, content with her friends and life, that is, before her parents decide to move back to Hong Kong, heir home city. Ruth feels lost as she grapples with her rudimentary Cantonese, and making friends in a place that feels so foreign to her. Using the stories of her father's families' hardship, Ruth learns that even through the most difficult of experiences, she can survive with the bond of her family.

Uprooted utilies simplistic art to explore a complex topic. The dynamics of the "immigrant family in America" is flipped on its head with a return to Chia. It explores the struglle of children of immigrants struggle to connect with their ethnicity, still, at the same time, Uprooted maintains a light and child-like atmosphere.