Chinas

At the beginning of the school year, two 9-year-old Chinese girls meet at a school. Everyone assumes that they will become friends, but absolutely nothing brings them together. Lucía is a second generation immigrant. She feels absolutely Spanish and only thinks about integrating with the rest of her school friends. She wishes she had “normal” parents like the rest of her friends, but hers constantly embarrass her because they don’t speak Spanish, work more than 14 hours at the bazaar and won’t even let her celebrate her birthday at Burger King. The other girl is Xiang. She is adopted and her face shows wherever she goes that she is not the daughter of her parents. Xiang wonders about her biological family; she neither feels Chinese nor does she feel accepted in front of the other children at school. The two girls will cross paths, separate and end up being vital to each other in the search for their identity.