Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by her desire to arrive "somewhere better"--some place utopian, like revolution, or safe, like home, or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of a relationship, a family whose values she no longer shares, and America's casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. Seeking answers in art, films, philosophy, and literature, Low attempts to reconcile her yearnings with her radical politics and begin the next chapter of her life, asking: Do our quests to fulfill our deepest wishes propel us forward, or keep us trapped in familiar dead ends?
Synopsis
Moving west--from Singapore to America, from New York to California--a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.