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Synopsis

Based on an epic true story of love and pain of a young Chinese girl leaving Maoist
China in the 1950’s to immigrate to America with her Mother. Against all improbable
odds, the story follows how she evolved through perseverance along her life path into a
powerful young woman, becoming eventually an Icon of Fashion.

Through a tunnel of time we travel from the height of the 21st Century Hollywood
fashion and society of Sue Wong to rural Maoist China in 1954. It is there that a young
girl, Ah-Lin Wong’s (later named Sue Wong) spirited force awakens at the height of the
full-scale transition from old traditional China to the dawn of the new Maoist regime.
From a young girl’s humble rural beginnings, an indomitable spirit and creative artistic
mind emerges, centering on hope through the creation of beauty. She begins a lifetime
journey of transcending life’s pain through the channel of beauty and the search for
true love, resulting in the most epic, magical life imaginable that she self-created.

Through young Ah-Lin’s struggles of poverty with the intrusive local military presence in
Gom Bing Village in China, she finds joy with her humorous and incorrigible
grandmother and loving and protective mother - all without her father who left for
America before her birth.

The young 5 year-old learns about how to ‘stand tall’ through the mythic Chinese
stories of love and hope, told through her new unlikely friend, the young handsome
Commander Lei Xiao. It is also here that she learns about immortal love through the
story of The Butterfly Lovers, leadership, and how to compassionately care for others
when the Commander becomes ill. The village commander and Ah-Lin’s relationship
transform from a punitive one, initially, to one of great respect and admiration. The
commander eventually becomes a hero of the story who dramatically saves Ah-Lin’s
life as she had courageously done the same previously for him.

A creative force at an early age, the young Chinese girl, birthed in the same year of the
Chinese Revolution, finds a deeper understanding of love, caring and how to transcend
authority through action and compassion.

These vast experiences at a very young age plant the seeds for the eventual “Queen of
Beads” an engaging and powerful young female designer known to the world as Sue
Wong. It is this Sue Wong, who single-handedly takes on the creative maelstrom of the
late 1960s and 1970s, paving a unique story of turbulence, triumph and tragedy in the
epicenter of Bohemian Southern California counterculture, Venice, California.

The strength embedded in her strong, resilient character helps her effectively deal with
her emotionally abusive father, conquering the Dark Father archetype to live out her
life’s true destiny. No easy task, even with the unconditional love and support of her
good friend, Celeste, who becomes Sue’s life-long soul sister after she rescues her one

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