As soon as she arrives in Korea from Vietnam, Loan goes to a beauty salon with her new mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law immediately starts to nag at her poor Korean, and she is left alone to get a perm. Loan’s loneliness only deepens as she is thrown into the middle of the neighborhood gossip circle. This film captures the fine details of an outsider’s heartbreaking efforts to take their first steps in a strange, new world.