Waiting for the Sun (2017)
• March 19th, 2017 • 1h 32min
Documentary
Overview
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living in the streets. Grandma Zhang, as the kids call her, is a former prison guard who has founded an orphanage in Nanzhao.
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