Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory (2015)
• March 14th, 2015 • 0h 25min
Documentary
Overview
In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in Seymour, Indiana. 35 years later, her aspiring filmmaker son, Tony, decides to document her final day of work at the last ironing board factory in America.
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