Yong
9 min / documentary / 2011 / Taiwan (English subtitles)
director: Yoshico Lee
Most seven-year-olds are in bed by the time the night market gets busy. Yong is just getting to work.
To the crowds in Taiwan, he is a small boy weaving between food stalls with a bag of empty bottles. To his mother, whose eyesight is slipping away, he is the reason they get by. To his tutors, he is something else entirely: a child with Asperger syndrome who can tell you the day of the week for any date, and who might grow up to be anything at all, if someone gives him the chance.
Yong is a quiet, unforgettable portrait of a child carrying an adult’s weight with a child’s heart. You will not stop thinking about him, or wondering what his future holds.
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