Saigon, Vietnam – 1972 – Two men who come from two backgrounds fall in love at first sight – a love story between a Vietnamese tailor and an American customer.
Alone in grieving the disappearance of her daughter 4 years prior, Venus makes an impromptu trip to see her estranged father after hearing him on public radio discussing a wormhole being studied in the Pacific Ocean.
Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural, tries to find his way into the larger story–and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family's buried history.