China’s one-child policy, the extreme population controlmeasure, may have ended in 2015, but the process ofdealing with the trauma is only just beginning.The documentary explores the ripple effects of thissocial experiment, uncovering one shocking humanrights violation after another. Wang, a native of China,digs fearlessly into her own personal life, weaving herexperience as a new mother and first hand accountsof her relatives with archival propaganda materialand testimony from victims and perpetrators alike,yielding a revelatory and essential record of this chillingmoment in human civilisation. The film reveals howthe government’s relentless campaign of propagandabrainwashed its citizens into committing unspeakablecrimes and serves as a harrowing indictment of themindset that prioritises national agenda over human life.Featured is the midwife who delivered Nanfu and all thebabies in her village, who estimates that she performed60,000 abortions. Most unsettling is the testimony ofone of China’s most decorated family planning officialswho, in clinical detail, explains how she executed hermandate. Traveling from village to village, sterilisingwomen and performing abortions, many on women whoresisted and had to be caught and restrained. “If I couldgo back in time, I would do it again,” she says.
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