This co-written creative piece unfolds as an intimate act of witnessing between a child and their Vietnamese migrant mother, tracing fragments of labour, loss, and survival against the backdrop of racialization. Weaving through memories of factories, kitchens, and relentless drudgery, the narrative explores how the body becomes both a site of endurance and debility under a system that demands gratitude for its violences. At its heart, this work grapples with the paradox of migration: the aspiration toward whiteness as a promise of stability and success, even as that aspiration alienates us from the very people we are doing it for.