Overview
Three young Chinese-Canadian sisters, with a fertile imagination and living in poverty in the East end of Toronto, discover a dead rat, poisoned by their Mother, in their basement and this sets off a chain of events that lead to devastating results. The film is about sisterly bonds and the beauty and the tragedy of the imagination.
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