Shirong Wu

In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.

17-year-old Jane begins to embrace her background and rekindle her relationship with her mother when she becomes immersed in Chinese culture at her younger sister's new language school.

March 2020, a worldwide catastrophic event unfolds, as an ensemble of young migrants' lives fall apart. Libra stares down the drop of a tall building, Razor deals drugs for flights back to the Philippines, Amanda is the survivor of an assault, Ying arrives from China, and Lit Phil is on the run. Meanwhile a young man with dark desires roams the streets. Through the chaos these lives will cross paths and a pencil will be taken to the jugular.

It is 1857 in the Victorian Goldfields. Yi Xi, a Chinese female miner stands in court accused of stealing taxation money from the Chinese tax collector. In an attempt to clear her name and uphold her innocence, Yi Xi challenges the British authority in a xenophobic society that will soon decide her fate.