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Promises to Come

(1998)
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Becky is appalled when the Vietnamese "baby" her parents are sponsoring into Canada turns out to be a teenager older than she is. Distressed by her own reaction, she struggles to overcome her feelings of hostility and to understand the shy, silent Kim. Kim, meanwhile, is engaged in an even fiercer struggle. Haunted by her experiences in war-torn Vietnam and the refugee camps, she must come to term with the horrors of the past before she can accept the promises of new life in Canada.



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