Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

Two youths, eager to make a quick buck, accept a job to kidnap the girlfriend of a famous football player. The kidnapped girl, calling herself Sam, cunningly convinces our bemused boys that she is really the daughter of a New York Mafia family and, should they not release her pronto, her brother will track them down.