Natalie Tan returns home after her mother's death to find that the neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother's restaurant. But Natalie has no desire to help try to turn things around in the community - she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a new friend and a budding romance, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along.