At an underground hostess bar in the San Gabriel Valley, CA, a Taiwanese-American gang member breaks the cardinal rule of his job when he falls in love with the star hostess of the club.

Trapped between duty and despair, an undocumented Chinese cook begins to question the cost of survival in a country that sees him as invisible as anti-Asian aggression rises outside his kitchen walls.

While falling in love with a reclusive homeless musician, a drug-addicted Chinese school girl regains her appetite for life and makes peace with herself.