Sister Ping was a middle-aged mother in Chinatown who ran several businesses. Part of what I ended up doing was spending years kind of peeling back the layers of this criminal enterprise that she had which wasn't just human smuggling there were all kinds of things she was doing but if you talk to people in the neighborhood they would say oh Sister Ping we love Sister Ping. There was a sense of her as this kind of home-spun hard-working modest self-effacing character.

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