Immigrant soundtrack

I strongly recommend a book: Dancer in the Dark.

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Selma is a Czech immigrant and a single mother who works in a factory in rural America. Her spiritual pillar is her passion for music, especially her interest in Hollywood musical comedies full of singing and dancing. But Selma has a secret that hurts her: her eyesight is slowly declining, and she finds that her son suffers from the same disease due to genetic reasons. If she can't earn enough money to pay for the operation, her son will be blind. However, after a desperate neighbor wrongly accused her of stealing his savings, the scene about her fate gradually came to a complicated ending. ...

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