The term 'undesirable' refers to the Home Office file HO 213/926, it was used to describe a community of Chinese migrant labourers working on British merchant ships during World War II. In the mid to late 1940s, groups of Chinese seamen would disappear from the streets of Liverpool, never to be heard from again. Hundreds of men were separated from their families who lived in the belief that they had been abandoned. Three generations later, the details and violence of this history can only be pieced together through stories, half-remembered family histories and fragmented documents.

Taking the gaps in the archives as a starting point, this film incorporates a series of interventions into archival materials to draw out the narrative tension between personal archives and official history. The disjointed first-person accounts of five families form a collective re-telling of an erased history, testifying not only to the injustice but also to intergenerational trauma and lost identity.