As a native originally from the city of Wuhan, China, I was quite traumatized in the disastrous events caused by the Covid outbreak and the following pandemic, amid economic and political turmoils in 2020. For quite a long time, I was hesitant to tell anyone where I was from, in fear of discrimination or demonization of my background. Many of my Chinese friends and family had similar traumatic experiences. 

In the same time, I saw that ignorance and bigotry came from all sides, the majority and the minority, the insulters and the insulted alike. It seems to me that Covid-19 works like a test kit, through which our humanity as a whole is tested positive of viruses such as assumptions, prejudice and hatred. To some point, none of us are immune to these real diseases — we all fall short of our dignities and humanity in the face of stress and confusion. The ones that really got hurt are the truly innocent and the future of us: our children. 

The story of this short film came into being on the July 4th, 2020 in Los Angeles. It leads us to a close observation of people’s reaction to the disaster, from an Asian father and son’s perspective, one that I could provide with authenticity and honesty.