Fishing for Words🏆

10’ 57”

Category: Documentary

Director: Alton Ron Tan

Synopsis

In January 2015, then-50-year-old Sherwin Tang, an active fitness instructor by profession, was conducting a workout session at a gym when he suddenly collapsed from a stroke, rendering him in a temporary locked-in state. He underwent a painful rehabilitation process lasting for months. The stroke also caused him to acquire a language impairment - expressive aphasia. Despite being able to understand the people around him, he had difficulty finding the right words to express himself.

7 years on, he constantly undergoes daily home speech therapy to regain the words he lost, oftentimes becoming frustrated in the process.