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Monica does not share this dream. She sees the leaky mobile home, the lack of neighbors, and the constant financial precarity. Their son, David, is a mischievous seven-year-old with a heart murmur, caught between his mother’s fear and his father’s ambition.

That summer, the farm became a war. Jacob worked the fields from dawn until the sun bled out behind the Ozarks. Monica worked a nightmarish shift at a hatchery, sorting chicks, her hair smelling of ammonia and exhaustion. They fought in whispers that grew into shouts. The money ran dry. The well turned brackish. And one night, David found his mother crying in the pantry, her body a knot of fear and fury. Minari

The plant serves as a powerful metaphor for the immigrant experience: Monica does not share this dream

“We’re not Korean anymore,” she sobbed. “And we’re not American. We’re nothing.” That summer, the farm became a war

Then came the fire.