Lydia is dead. But they don't know that yet...
Sixteen-year-old Lydia (the middle and most popular of the three children) has to deal with the pressure of her parents, who want to fulfill their own unfulfilled dreams and desires for a social career. Her father comes from a closed community of the first American generation of Chinese immigrants, her mother is an ordinary American woman who failed to become a doctor. When one day Lydia is found drowned in the middle of a lake, no one can understand how or why this happened. An investigation begins, in which, paradoxically, the youngest of the children - daughter Hannah - retains the most common sense... The disturbing and tragic story of a Chinese-American family living in the suburbs of Ohio won the prestigious Amazon Book of the Year award for 2014.