BROKEN DOLLS

A mother’s obscured past become a daughter’s call to action in reconstructing a history altered  by the Holocaust.  In 1939, a mysterious benefactor enables a seven-year-old Jewish girl and her mother to escape Nazi Germany on a ship for Shanghai, where they face deprivation and an uncertain future. In the Jewish Ghetto of the international Chinese city, the child spends a decade reinventing herself as a non-German non-Jew.  Decades later, now herself a mother with an established life in Florida, she comes full circle, seeking to lay claim to her past.  In the complex quest to reclaim her German citizenship, the discovery of a shocking secret adds a new perspective to her life story.