The way home: in memory of Nanjing massacre

72-year-old Luo Shanxue.[Photo: Zhao Jianfu]

This is a story about a mother and a son, about a man struggling to find his home.

The story happens in the remote mountainous village of Guangxi, in South China. During World War II, a young woman was forced into sex slavery by Japanese soldiers during their invasion of China. Upon finding out that she was pregnant; she managed to escape from her captors. In 1945, she gave birth to a child. Her family decided that the baby was innocent and that he should be given a home.

98-year-old Wei Shaolan. [Photo: Zhao Jianfu]

Executive Producer: Li Peichun; Zhang Wan

Reporter: Lu Chang; Li Shiyu; Zhao Jianfu

Writer: Lu Chang

Cast: 

Narrator by Manling;

Luo Shanxue by Lin Shaowen;

Wei Shaolan by Huang Rui;

Wu Chunhua by Yin Xiuqi;

Chen Qingwen by Xin Xin.

Yang Yong voices the lyrics of Guangxi folk song in the end.

The relics of Shaziling comfort station in Li Pu county, South China's Guang Xi province. [Photo: Zhao Jianfu]

The Way Home was first broadcast on Studio+ on June 1, 2017.