An Immigrant Girl's Journey

AN IMMIGRANT GIRL'S JOURNEY is a human interest docudrama chronicling three years, 1972 to 1975, in the life of a seven-year-old Filipino girl-child, Alexi Alcedo. Alexi is caught in the mix of her mother's quest to escape the squatters life of Smokey Mountain, a 2000 acre mountain of garbage, the largest waste dump site in the world, where people live, and the garbage is their source of livelihood. Mom wants out, something cleaner, the "good life" in America.