Sisters Vivi and Calla Nguyễn have little in common. Vivi lives a predictable life, working as an art conservator at a museum, carefully preserving pieces of the past while refusing to examine her own dark history. Calla leads a much bolder existence. She’s an accomplished artist with a flair for the dramatic, as well as a recovering addict, who intrigues everyone she meets. Months after the two fall out in the wake of their father’s death, Calla appears on the steps of the museum with a sketch and a letter she found in their father’s belongings. The sketch is an exact copy of Blue Mirror, a striking painting by Vietnamese artist K.P. Lý. In the letter, Lý writes about a mysterious lost work of art, and Calla is convinced it is meant for their family --- that it was their father’s deathbed wish for her and Vivi to find it together.

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life, but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. Now she returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng. Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together.