Producers Kazua Melissa Vang and YEEJ Attending

Lue has just gotten divorced and moved home to rural Montana. Unmarried, introspective, and lonely, this young Hmong man now has more time to take care of his ailing mother, all the while listening to her and his sister chide him over his failed marriage. But taking care of mom also means taking care of her enormous vegetable garden.

Director Vera Brunner-Sung’s patient camera slowly unveils a profound story, not just of an immigrant community on the edge of the wilderness, but a contemplative look at what it means to be human and to live in nature when the world is quite literally catching on fire.