Shu's parents shoot down her dream of a "real" Thanksgiving, so she goes online to find herself a white host family instead, landing on the picture-perfect Andersons. Dinner spirals into a parade of invasive questions, and when Shu gets sick from ice water, the family's clinical interest in her reaction turns out to be foreshadowing: they knock her out and reveal a homemade machine meant to transfer her "Asian discipline" into their son Brandon (they've done it before, to cousin Trent).

Roxanne is a fencing champion-turned-coach who was forced to retire too young. Her student, Miles, dreams of achieving glory in the NCAA, egged on by his overbearing father, Harvey. When Miles is waitlisted by his dream school, tension brews amongst the three of them.

Penelope, a former dancer now grappling with Alzheimer’s, relives fragments of her youth as her daughter Olivia helps her pack up their family home.

A boy who always sees a crying zebra and a girl who needs to be seen.

Throughout her life, Frankie has been struck by lightning seven times. Often at the worst moments: first date, graduation, job interview.