Synopsis

The passport identified her as Cha Jung Hee, a name she knew was a falsehood. Thus began a forty-year deception for a Korean adoptee who arrived in the United States in 1966. Instructed to conceal her origins from her new American family, the eight-year-old girl soon lost all memory of a past identity. Yet, the question lingered: why had her identity been exchanged? And who was the true Cha Jung Hee? *In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee* is an exploration to uncover these answers, as acclaimed filmmak