Let’s say you’re a pretty, white twentysomething girl. And you hate your day job, waitressing at a Chinese restaurant. Your night job, the one that’s suppose to turn you into an actress, is dubbing awful kung-fu movies in English. If that’s not bad enough, you end up sleeping with the actor you’re doing the dub with, a Japanese guy who turns out to be a loser. So you go home to your Taiwanese roommate, whose main purpose in life is to get sick so you can take care of her. Welcome to the life of Ally Carter, who just might get her final chance at stardom if she can only figure out how to swim along the Yellow Sea.