Shifting between 1970s New York and today, Bertha Bay–Sa Pan's lively and affecting first feature tells the mirroring stories of Kim, a headstrong girl whose dreams of independence were cut short by an unplanned pregnancy, and her daughter, Genie, who grew up vowing not to make the mistakes of her mother. When Kim returns to America from Hong Kong to visit the daughter she abandoned, three generations of Asian American women come to terms with their cultural identity and shared history.