This animated short is a loose retelling of my Great Grandmothers immigration from China to Malaysia. I have used Chinese shadow puppets and more fantastical narrative devices to mythologize her improbable but not uncommon story. I wanted to replicate the way I had always heard the story of her heroism, as a bed time story told by my mother. The puppets tell the tale of her many trials, from leaving her daughters behind to saving her husband from a cunning monster. In reality, her story was much longer and more complicated than the one I depicted, and I had to cull a lot from my original script. My Great Grandfather was not held captive by a monster, he was sucked into a tin mine in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur. Whilst working at the tin mine, my he became addicted to the opium that the tin mine owners purposely sold to employees. Because of his addiction he was unable to leave, save for the 16 days of Chinese New Year, when all employees were allowed to go home. It was only through my Great Grandmothers entrepreneurship as a seamstress that our family was able to persist. Though I changed many aspects of this narrative to mimic the familiar story beats from Chinese mythology, the core message about my Great Grandmother’s bravery, wit and perseverance remains consistent.