A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, June and Jennifer Gibbons turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires.
When North American filmmaker Ben Mullinkosson arrived in Chengdu in 2010, he was amazed to discover a China that was radically different from the one he had imagined, with ineffable political limitations and a tenacious obsession with money. There, he fell in love with a community formed around Funky Town, the last bastion of queer and underground partying, hidden under the cranes of construction sites and about to disappear to make way for a metro. Here, people party and wander, emancipating themselves from the traumas of conventional society, whether they are ravers, drag performers, 20-year-old queer DJs, or lovers. A skater himself, Mullinkosson shares and captures with strength and affection the transience of this youth and its moments of doubt, disorientation, self-destruction and epiphany, in a suspended state of time.
Sam has a chance encounter with an old friend on his way home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories.
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