Independent Lens (1999)

Episode Overview

Across decades and continents, a Chinese family’s buried pain surfaces through time, migration, and shifting identities. Filmmaker Vicky Du turns her lens inward, tracing her family’s history of mental illness back to the 1949 Communist Revolution. From Taipei to New Jersey, *Light of the Setting Sun* examines how trauma shapes identity and gender expectations, asking whether healing can truly break the cycle for the generations that follow.