Kuala Lampur, July 13 -- Dear You is ostensibly a love story. But beneath its romance, lies a larger human story. It is a meditation on migration, memory, cultural survival and the quiet sacrifices through which families endured and nations are built.

It is the story of the Chinese migrant diaspora in South-east Asia, centred on one family, yet celebrates profoundly universal themes that are both personal and political.

The story begins with a spoilt grandson travelling to Thailand to find the grandfather he has never known, not out of filial devotion, but because he is in debt and hopes the old man will give him money.

Yet, as he searches for his grandfather, he discovers something far more valuable - the truth about where he came fro...