Description
May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the unimaginable happens.
Seventeen years later, two best friends are discussing their summer plans before college over a piece of mooncake. Both have trips ahead in search of their roots. Sabrina is preparing to travel to China to meet her mother’s family. Kit leaves for Tokyo, convinced that her biological mother is Japanese. Their parents watch on from the quiet suburbs of Chestnut Hill, nervous about what their daughters might find.
Meanwhile, Mimi returns to Philadelphia in search of her lost child, tracing memories of that fateful day at the gates.
Each of these women is looking to find her place in the world. Eventually, Mimi, Kit, and Sabrina come face to face and must confront who they truly are, dismantling their assumptions about belonging and the importance of blood ties.