As they retreat from civilization, they enter a mythical realm that makes them question both the meaning of life and their reasons for being there. Since Taiwan opened its labor market to foreign workers in 1993, thousands of laborers from Southeast Asia have flooded the country in search of higher wages. In this poignant documentary, director Hsu Hsiao-ming chronicles the lifestyle and mental states of some of these immigrants, Asia s new nomadic tribe. Their touching narratives reveal a people who desperately want to improve the lives of their loved ones, but because of oppressive working conditions and long separations, risk losing them. The film follows the lives and loves of the five friends who call themselves the O-group, for their common blood type as they graduate from the university and become entangled in the realities of life after college.
Years pass, and the O-group s bond of friendship disintegrates.
But, when Foon receives a botched abortion, accompanied by serious medical problems, a local radio station broadcasts her plight, and a citywide search for donors with the rare, O-negative blood type is on. Benegal portrays Gandhi as an ordinary person living and adjusting to the circumstances of his time, who then becomes an extraordinary leader whose response to racial injustice with non-violence changed an empire. This version of Ghandis life his relentless search for truth strained his relationship with his wife and son makes Gandhi seem more human, and thus, his life, as well as the vision of his work, become even more accessible and relevant today. Instead, after decades of silence, former internees finally speak openly about their acts of protest, and reflect on the psychological toll the camps took on both them and their community. The film was inspired by Omori s struggle against her own family s silence about the internment.