MAI’S AMERICA is a personal journey that defies all expectations. Mai, a smart, vivacious, and resilient Vietnamese teenager, travels to America for her senior year of high school, shouldering her family’s high expectations and her own visions of western-style success. Yet nothing in Mai’s wildest imagination could prepare her for what she finds in rural Mississippi. Encounters with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host-families, a local transvestite, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about America, freedom, her identity and even her homeland of Vietnam. Mai may have arrived in America with the desire to win a scholarship and make her family proud, but her journey through the Southern heartland reveals MORE [EDIT]
Duration: 1:42:00
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Source: Amazon Instant Video
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