After the Korean war and before Korea became a rich country, around 200000 Korean children left their homeland to be adopted throughout the world.
One of those children was Jung. He was adopted by a Belgian couple who already had 4 children (and also adopted a Korean girl after him).
In this wonderful animated movie Jung poetically describes his life of an ethnic Korean Belgian, the quest for identity, racism, maladjustment, the need to know one's origins, the difficulties faced when that is not possible, the feelings of abandonment and loss, and finally, forgiveness.
This beautiful autobiography shows once again that human skin can be of many colours, but our feelings and needs are universal.
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