Reunion with biological parents can be complicated for adoptees. Especially because relinquishment or losing a child or parent, language, culture can be traumatic and represent lifelong grief. But whose story is it? Aneyah Elmore, 56, is a Black and Korean adoptee who is balancing the need to tell her own story and the desire of her biological mother not to. 

CW****Child killings, racial genocide, suicide, emotional abuse of a child

 Note: Aneyah mentions Truth and Reconciliation Commission but instead means Danish Korean Rights Group.

“Running” by JaeJin under license.

“Dorothea,” “Trajectories,” “Edge of the Woods,” “Red Ember,” and “Anippe” by Blue Dot Sessions under license.