In 1966, an American couple adopted a Korean “orphan” named Cha Jung Hee, and renamed her Deann. No one questioned the authenticity of the identity papers from the adoption agency, nor did anyone heed the little girl's pleas that things weren't quite right. As time went on, Jung Hee/Deann happily integrated into the new family, but there was just one important discrepancy: she was never Cha Jung Hee. A moving and complex follow-up to her groundbreaking First Person Plural, Deann Borshay Liem's In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee expands that film's personal narrative to explore an entire nation's scarred history. Returning to South Korea in an effort to find the “real” Cha Jung Hee, Borshay Liem visits her old orphanage, hunts through records, and discovers countless Cha Jung Hees. Partially a personal investigation of a mislabeled past, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee also traverses the changing face of Korea's cultural landscape, one inextricably linked to Borshay Liem's compelling narrative.