When a hopelessly romantic high school senior falls for a mysterious new classmate, it sets them both on an unexpected journey that teaches them about love, loss, and most importantly themselves.
Novelist Xiaodie returns to the home where she lost her mother years ago. As her sister lays dying, she comforts Lei, her niece, with stories of the Hmong deity “Mother Butterfly.”
With the help of her girlfriends, a young woman weighs her options when her parents force her to have an arranged marriage.
11-year-old Mai is attending her baby brother's very first birthday party when she learns a crushing truth: her parents never really wanted a girl.