Years after his last success, washed-up writer N encounters asharp-tongued child and later wakes up with a literary hit -one he can't remember writing.
The Captain and his fellow Vietnamese refugees attempt tosettle into life in Los Angeles. The defeated General growssuspicious and demands the Captain locate a mole he believeshas infiltrated their ranks. While the Captain narrows in on atarget, he reconnects with his former teacher, ProfessorHammer, and meets his beguiling assistant, Ms. Mori.
The sheltered and precocious Maria is content with her bleakvillage life until her obsessed teacher shows her an illicitpicture from the outside world.
At a dinner for Korean adoptees hosted by adoptee advocate& influencer Hera, Jane meets Kev, another KoreanAustralian adoptee. After striking out with him, she headshome & finally opens the letter from her birth father.
Reeling from some recent news that drops a bombshell on hislife, Tony Mammoth tries to make up for lost time. But despitehis best efforts, things don't go to plan, and he and Theoend up in a fight with a stranger. Meanwhile, his boss,Lucy, has to fight off the local oddballs looking to donate tohelp her fertility treatment.
With the General's order to eliminate the spy in their ranksweighing on him, the Captain seeks Bon's help to craft andexecute a plan specifically timed for Independence Day. Later,at an upscale lunch, Claude introduces the Captain to theAuteur, who seeks the Captain's on-set consulting for hisupcoming Hollywood movie about the war.