Sung’s Family

Sung Yan-fei

Taiwan｜2020｜27min

Quy, now 48, decided in her youth to come to Taiwan to marry in order to provide a better life for her family. She said: “Marrying somebody overseas is like drawing lots: some people have good fortune and some people have bad fortune.” Quy is now divorced. She is also my mother, which makes me what everyone refers to as a “second-generation new immigrant.”
I experienced firsthand the effects of a broken cross-cultural marriage. We still live in a small village in Puli, Nantou. We survived the 921 Earthquake, but different ways of thinking eventually tore our family apart.