The Dependents

Based on diaries that detail her father’s thirty years of service as a Canadian immigration officer, The Dependents is a woman’s intimate portrait of a life in transit. In it, she explores her family’s travels through Asia and the Americas, her father’s ties to his native land, her mother's status as a migrant spouse, and her own experience as an unassuming child born into this shifting orbit.

By intertwining past and present, The Dependents builds on the notion of home while shining light on broader issues like displacement, globalization, and the tangled bonds between East and West, North and South, man and woman.