Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons a young American couple invite the Yazdans Maryam her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party which becomes an annual event. Maryam who came to this country thirty-five years earlier feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.