Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.

When high school senior and math prodigy, Ethan Young is enrolled in public school for the first time, his privileged, upper-class life becomes a secret he must hide if he wants to fit in and successfully lead his new school's underdog economics team to victory. And after being relegated to public school for disobeying his father (Wayne), Ethan is forced to choose between two competing priorities of becoming a successor to his father's business legacy or forging his own path and helping his newfound friends.