Hyun-sook pressures her anxious daughter to greet her strict grandmother for Lunar New Year, but when her daughter, Jisoo cannot speak, she must choose between punishment or defying generational expectations.

On the night of his 21st birthday, a Korean-American son burdened by years of silent sacrifice spirals through Koreatown-haunted by the fear of becoming the father who left, and desperate to know if letting go is the only way to finally keep his promise to stay.