The daughter of Cambodian refugees Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam
populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered
lives. It is now the late 90's and despite their parent's harrowing past Ai and her tightknit
group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte sweet endearing Bowie shy inscrutable Tin
and politically minded Sying lead seemingly ordinary lives far removed from the unimaginable
horrors suffered by their parents. But that carefree innocence is shattered in their last year
of school when Ai and her friends encounter a pair of racist men whose cruel acts of
intimidation spiral into senseless violence. Grappling with the magnitude of her grief at such
a young age Ai leaves Whitlam for college before her trauma has a chance to fully resolve. In
her second year of college Ai suffers a mental health crisis driving her back home to Whitlam
a place she swore never to return. There she reconnects with those she left behind and
together they are compelled to look back on the tragedy that shaped their adolescence and
examine the role they may have unwittingly played--
