'The Leavers' tells the poignant journey of Deming Guo, an eleven-year-old with an uncertain future after his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, vanishes. Adopted by a white couple and renamed Daniel Wilkinson, he struggles to anchor his identity between the new life shaped by his adoptive parents and the vivid memories of his mother and the Bronx community he left behind. This story weaves through the emotional landscapes of a mother's sacrifice and a son's quest for belonging, set against the backdrop of New York and China.