Amelia, a 12-year-old Chinese-Indonesian girl, has just learned of a tradition that says women who have received their period must not wash their underwear together with men's clothes, or the men will face bad luck.

When an unidentified disease starts to upend her life, a socialite must unravel the mystery behind it — before her whole sense of self falls apart.

Young Vania faces her fears and finds courage in tumultuous times when she takes in an injured thief seeking refuge in her family’s traditional Chinese medicinal hall.