Noah, a neurotic writer, spends his time idling in a New York townhouse owned by his mother Carla, where he lives alone--until his childhood friend Daniel moves in.
An awkward computer programmer learns to dance in order to impress his next-door neighbor. (Yanvalou is a dance from the Afro-Haitian Vodoun tradition.)
Set in the year 2000, a single mother and her teenage daughter struggle to make friends and find belonging at a Filipino Christmas party in suburban Wisconsin. The film explores otherness, identity, and assimilation from the contrasting perspectives of childhood and adulthood.