A super sweet remembrance of a friendship between immigrants, one girl from Israel (Noa Rotstein), and the other from Vietnam (Dalena Le). It visits a lot of the topics you'd expect, e.g. the difficulty of learning a new language, the cruelty of other girls towards an outsider, and the trials and tribulations of friendship. It gets a little saccharine when the soundtrack is cued at emotional moments, but it's always heartfelt. One of my favorite moments was when we hear the teacher's voice from the perspective of the girl, completely garbled, because she hasn't learned enough English yet - and then the observation that "Maps in America cut Asia in half so that their country is at the center of the world." The ending with footage of the real people 30 years afterwards is pretty cool too, as was finding out that Thuy really did stand out on the doorstep for two hours. A gentle and touching work from Ela Their, who also plays Ellie's mom.