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An African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white world."

The story is about a foot-binding of Chinese women named Lotus, a traditional woman with bound feet who must decide whether or not to bind her daughter Joy's feet. Her strict, but loving Mother-in-law insists that Joy's feet be bound in order to guarantee her a secure future. Lotus, for the first time in her life does not blindly obey. She is further influenced by her good friend, Coral, a colorful performer with a traveling Cantonese opera troupe who openly challenges the outlawed custom. In the end, Lotus makes a decision which will change her daughter's life forever.

In the tiny town of Sweetwater, Texas, chaos and local gossip ensues as an undercover postal police man falls in love with a mail-tampering temptress.

Newly sober "Edward" takes a trip Seattle to Los Angeles to find his friend "Johnny", so that they can pursue dreams, fun, struggles with drinking, and ultimately learn to grow and change in necessary ways they had not ever considered, which test their friendship and bring about opportunities for a deeper bond between friends. Can these guys survive each other and continue to grow together? Can they survive a car theft gone wrong, at the end of a 38 special held by movie star "Jack Spain"?