After graduating from college, a second-generation Chinese-American revisits the places that defined each era of his life: early adolescence in the suburbs, fresh independence in a big city, and his ancestral hometown in China. Using the “method of loci,” or “memory palace technique,” he reflects on the relationship between familiar spaces and the vivid, often-poignant memories they conjure. 

Filmmaker Steven Gong tells this story from his own perspective, featuring cinéma vérité appearances from his family and experimental filmmaking techniques to capture the conflicting emotions and lore evoked by these familiar spaces. What happens when we leave home, and what is it like to return? How do we make sense of the in-between?