Chinese adoption is explored through the eyes of three teenage girls seeking out their roots — and each other — in “Step” director Amanda Lipitz’s “Found.” Weaving together the stories of Chloe, Sadie, and Lily, the film shows how tracing one’s genealogy as a Chinese adoptee in the U.S.
can be a difficult task, but with a little help from 23andme and just a bit of pluck, it’s not impossible.The three high school-aged girls were all born in China but adopted by parents in the United States, and now live in Tennessee and Oklahoma City.
After a mail-in DNA test connects them as blood-related cousins, they use social media to bond and eventually join together to travel to China — a place none of them has any firsthand experience of — to examine their past.
The uncertainty surrounding their adoption stems from China’s One Child Policy, in effect
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