Scenes [of everyday details] are all presented with a breezy, matter-of-factness. We experience them as Billi experiences them. At a time when ‘culture’ (commonly shorthand for non-white cultures) is often treated like a decorative object to be unveiled and explained for an unfamiliar audience, this simple self-presentation that answers to no one is refreshing. [And] released from the compulsion to translate this world for an imagined other and given the freedom to sit with it as it is and really look, I felt a deep love for everyone on-screen; and, unnaturally, a self-love.
— Rebecca Liu (Another Gaze)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.