For Nanfu Wang, investigating the policy of forcibly restricting family size spawns traumatic recollections from her own family’s past. The film reveals how relentless propaganda brainwashed and terrorized countless Chinese citizens into committing unspeakable crimes against fellow villagers and family members. Through interviews with both victims and instigators, along with revelatory data regarding the sheer number of abandoned children (nearly all of them infant girls), One Child Nation breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped – and destroyed – countless lives.