A Thousand Years of Good Prayers / The Princess of Nebraska

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: A woman in her early forties moves from China to America to start a new life. Her father comes to visit her because of her recent divorce. Their generational and cultural conflicts end up revealing the darker lies and cover-ups within her family during the cultural revolution. The Princess of Nebraska: Sasha, a China-born 18-year-old finds herself four months pregnant. She interrupts her studies to travel from Nebraska to San Francisco to determine what to do with her pregnancy. It is a revealing look at a young woman growing up under the new economic prosperity of China over the last 20 years.