THE LEAVERS

I loved this heart-wrenching tale of U.S. migration, in which deming, a Chinese boy from the Bronx, struggles to adapt to a comfy, middle-class lifestyle when he’s adopted (and renamed) by two university lecturers, following the mysterious disappearance of his mother.

While much of the drama turns on the psychological stress inflicted by his new parents, who are well-meaning, but crashingly insensitive, Ko doesn’t sermonise, or turn them into punchbags, making us see how deeply the situation taxes them, too.

It’s a grown-up treatment of a tough subject — and a gripping story to boot.