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Tough

Jun 01, 2016 | IMDB 6.6

5 min Watch Now

Documentary, Animation

Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.

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