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"The present is made possible by the past."
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.
19 Cast Members
Terry Chen
Ming Wang
Greg Kinnear
Misha Bartnovsky
Fionnula Flanagan
Sister Marie
Wai Ching Ho
Alian
Raymond Ma
Zhensheng
Ben Wang
Young Ming
Jayden Tianyi Zhang
Young Ming
Donald Heng
Young Zhensheng
Jennifer Juniper Angeli
Lynn Hendrich
Natalie Skye
June Bartnovsky
Danni Wang
Anle
Natasha Mumba
Ruth Tarik
Mia SwamiNathan
Kajal
Esabella Anna Karena Strickland
Maria
Sky Kao
Jason
Kenneth Liu
Zhao
Aaron Paul Stewart
Janitor
Ken Godmere
Professor McNesby
Corey Turner
Steve Hendrich
