Girl in Translation

When young Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to America, they speak no English and own nothing but debt. They arrive in New York hopeful for a better life, but find instead a squalid Brooklyn apartment and backbreaking labor in a Chinatown sweatshop. Unable to accept this as her future, Kim decides to use her "talent for school" to earn a place for herself and her mother in their adopted country. Disguising the most difficult truths of her meager existence, Kim embarks on a double life, an exceptional student by day, and a sweatshop worker by evening. In time, Kim learns to translate not just her language but herself, back and forth between two world, between hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.

Cand tanara Kimberly Chang si mama ei emigreaza din Hong Kong in America, ei nu vorbesc engleza si nu detin decat datorii. Sosesc la New York cu speranta unei vieti mai bune, dar gasesc in schimb un apartament mizerabil din Brooklyn si forta de munca spargatoare intr-un atelier din Chinatown.