It’s 1997. A major financial crisis is brewing in Korea, and nine-year-old Jimin has just moved to America as part of a Korean “goose family”—her father has remained in Korea to work, while the rest of her family has traveled abroad for an English education.
Newly living in a dingy motel room with her mother and brother, Jimin struggles to adapt and refuses to speak to her father, angry that he stayed behind. With hopes that he can join them in America dissipated, Jimin must gather the courage within herself to take the next steps forward.