Lily’s older confident sister, Maya shrugs off the past whenever Lily tries to remember their childhood in Hong Kong before they were sent back to their father in London once their mother, Sook-Yin’s died. Lily learns that she is has been bequeathed a large amount of money on the condition she comes to Hong Kong to claim it. She has no idea who Hei-Fong Lee is nor why he would leave her so much money. When she learns her sister has received the same letter, she confronts Maya, but her sister says to ignore the offer.
Lily is desperate to learn more about her past and the mother she hardly remembers. She sets off on a quest to Hong Kong to discover the other half of her culture, to uncover the details behind her mother’s death, and to learn their connection to the Lee family.
Told through Lily in the present and alternateling with Sook-Yin in the past, this is a tale about discovering one’s identity from a mixed heritage and the prejudice of not fully belonging to either culture.
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