Illegal Pearl

rural China, 1975. Seven-year-old Mei is exiled to her grandmother's remote, mud-brick cottage after her family incurs a crushing government fine for having an illegal third child. Separated from everything she knows, Mei faces a quiet, secluded existence in a world shaped by scarcity and silence.Denied a formal education due to her legal status and poverty, Mei refuses to let her mind be constrai...