
Desperate for human connection, Irene meticulously processes Natasha’s personal belongings through security, pausing to touch and examine everything. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) but is delayed by Irene, a lonely security guard, who has decided to commit suicide after she’s done with work. In a last ditch effort to stop the deportation, Natasha goes to the U.S.

He decides that until his interview later that day, he will do whatever the world tells him to. Despite his parents’ expectations, Daniel does not want to go the interview, go to Yale or become a doctor. Daniel is being pressured by his Korean-native parents to get accepted into Yale, especially now that that Daniel’s brother, Charlie, has been forced home from Harvard after having two semesters on probation. Natasha, who immigrated when she was 8 years old, is afraid to be sent back to a country she does not remember.Īt the same time, 17-year-old Daniel Jae Ho Bae leaves his family’s home to get his hair cut for an interview with a Yale college alumnus. In a drunken confession, he told the officer that he and his family were in the United States illegally.

Natasha’s father, an actor, drank with the cast and crew after a performance and crashed into a police car on the way home.

Because of her father’s DUI, they only have 12 hours left in the United States before being deported to Jamaica. On a fall day in New York City, 17-year-old Natasha Kingsley and her family prepare to leave the country.
