A neighborhood of families explore what it means to celebrate both the chaos and the joy of the holiday season.
An Asian family celebrating at a Chinese restaurant for their daughter's engagement joyfully sing karaoke on stage when suddenly a group of racist hecklers shout at them. The head of the family, usually quiet and reserved, gets up on stage to sing next.Through a dreamscape fantasy and a montage of childhood flashbacks, the father is transformed into mega pop star "Baba", and finds his courage to be the force needed for good. He snaps back to reality, back to the restaurant, and back to the hecklers in the room. With a newfound sense of urgency, the father confronts the hecklers and rallies the entire restaurant of onlookers to boot them out.
Jasmine Chen is a jazz singer and songwriter from mainland China. She was born in Liaoning province, China, and started studying classical music in England in 2000. She started her first jazz band while she was studying in Leeds College of Music in 2003, she was the band leader and singer. In 2004 she graduated from Leeds College of Music with honor, majored in classical piano performance. In 2005, Jasmine return to China started her singing career in Shanghai, she has become one of China's leading figures in jazz scene. Her style is combining western jazz with Chinese musical elements, introducing Chinese folk and old music to the western world, as well as bringing western jazz to Chinese audiences. She performs in many places in the world, from the most well-known Shanghai jazz club "JZ Club" to Netherlands' Northsea Jazz Festival.