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Chinese American filmmaker Tam Lum travels to Pittsburgh to make a documentary about Black boxer Ovaltine and visit the boxer’s supposed father. Staying with his Japanese American childhood friend Kenji, Tam encounters a family crisis and reassesses the stories and heroes that shaped his identity. Fantasy sequences include Tam meeting the Lone Ranger.
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, tour guide Fred Eng struggles with the family business he took on for his ailing father and his thwarted writing ambitions. A Chinese New Year visit from his sister and her white husband coincides with his biological mother’s arrival from China, intensifying conflict between Pa’s two families and exposing stereotypes imposed on Chinese Americans.
Chinese American filmmaker Tam Lum travels to Pittsburgh to make a documentary about Black boxer Ovaltine and visit the boxer’s supposed father. Staying with his Japanese American childhood friend Kenji, Tam encounters a family crisis and reassesses the stories and heroes that shaped his identity. Fantasy sequences include Tam meeting the Lone Ranger.
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, tour guide Fred Eng struggles with the family business he took on for his ailing father and his thwarted writing ambitions. A Chinese New Year visit from his sister and her white husband coincides with his biological mother’s arrival from China, intensifying conflict between Pa’s two families and exposing stereotypes imposed on Chinese Americans.