Thirty-year-old college lecturer Shu Qiao is about to marry her long-term boyfriend and fiancé, successful banker Hu. The future has been written for her. However, during a visiting scholar programme to Europe, Shu encounters theatre director Fan in Prague, with whom she falls hopelessly in love.
As Covid-19 begins to ravage NYC, a harried mother of two closes her Chinese restaurant while an African-American delivery woman picks up the final order. These two women escape their pandemic pressures while bonding over a very vocal social media trend.
