On Lunar New Year's Eve, Yara Lane brings carefully prepared ingredients to her husband's family home to arrange the New Year's Eve feast, only to face unwarranted criticism from her mother-in-law Mabel. She makes a clear-headed choice to stop her losses, leaves decisively, then cuts off ties with all draining relatives. She moves to the warm south with her husband and daughter, and starts a free, stable, hopeful new life from then on.