31 See The World : Prue Leith - Jorney With My Daughter【31看世界 : 柬埔寨尋親】
歷史不是冰冷的數字,是無數鮮活的生命。
31 See The World : Prue Leith - Jorney With My Daughter【31看世界 : 柬埔寨尋親】佩魯.利思的名字自1970年代在英國就已家傳戶曉,45年前,她作出了一個前衞的決定:領養來自柬埔寨的小女孩麗達。佩魯為麗達帶來愉快的童年,但她也承認,絕少與麗達談及她在柬埔寨的過去。如今兩人一同踏上親密的旅途,遠赴柬埔寨為麗達尋根,又借助現代社交媒體和基因測試,尋找昔日因逃避大屠殺而失散的家人。佩魯年事已高,這次遠行機會可一不可再;而麗達亦希望讓佩魯明白,探索自己的背景對她非常重要。
Prue Leith has been a household name since the 1970s. 45 years ago she made, what was for the time, the radical decision to adopt a Cambodian baby, Li-Da. Prue gave Li-Da an idyllic English upbringing at her Cotswolds home and, by her own admission, rarely questioned whether she could have helped Li-Da connect more with her Cambodian roots. Now in this intimate and revealing film Prue and Li-Da travel to Cambodia to search for her biological family. Social media and DNA testing are allowing thousands of children who, like Li-Da, were evacuated just before Pol Pot’s genocide to reconnect with lost relatives. For Prue, as she approaches 80, there may not be many more chances to make this journey. And for Li-Da this is her chance to help Prue understand why it’s so important to explore her heritage. What neither of them can predict is how they will react should they find what they are looking for.