Today is Natasha's last day in the United States. An illegal immigrant that overstayed her visa when she, her mother, and her brother rejoined her father in New York City from the Dominican Republic, she has built a life for herself here, and her former life is nothing but a distant memory. A straight A student and a budding scientist, she looked forward to a life spent analyzing data. But her father, who first came to the United States to break into the theater business, never struck it and spent most of his time at home, rehearsing plays. After finally obtaining a role and performing well, he drank and was then arrested while driving. His illegal status was discovered, and the entire family was ordered deported. Natasha is really mad at her father and hasn't been able to talk to him since. Hoping against all hope to secure a stay, Natasha skips school today and returns to Immigration to see if anything can be done to help her stay here.
Today Daniel is heading to an entrance interview to Yale. Daniel's parents are Korean, and they have worked hard all of their lives to ensure that both of their sons have the best education and opportunities in this new country. Daniel is the perfect son, always complying to his parents' requests. They want him to become a doctor, marry a nice Korean girl, and have children they can spoil. But Daniel is a poet, and he doesn't want to go to Yale. He's not sure what he wants to do, but he feels alienated both from his father, who always seems disappointed in Daniel no matter what he does, and from his brother Charlie, who hates being Korean and has just left Harvard amid a cloud of controversy.
When these two lives collide, the world opens up in possibilities. Can one fall in love in the course of a single day?
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