On a warm autumn day in 1990, Huixian, a young Chinese woman, arrives in Florida to reunite with her PhD husband, after a four-year separation. Filled with blossoming hope and desire, she is introduced to another side of American life.

Phoebe is a real catch... she just doesn’t know it yet. Far from home, she tackles a new sea of challenges during her first weeks at college. With her flamboyant roommate Adam as her navigator, she no longer feels like a small fish in a big pond, and she learns to feel comfortable in her own skin

A young woman navigates her first job interview at a job she desperately needs at a queer restaurant… a place she would have never considered having grown up in a traditional Christian church; however, during this process, she comes to terms with her identity.

A man takes a cross country road trip with his pet fish.