Juliet is a Chinese American teenager with a huge crush on her friend Milo. For Milo's birthday, she organizes something suspiciously similar to a date and plans to ask him to the school dance. She has prepared exactly how she will ask him but she chickens out multiple times. Juliet and Milo attend a symphony orchestra by a European composer that Milo loves. His parents are also immigrants, and Juliet feels glad that he understands what it is like to have foreign parents. At the concert, an old woman encourages Juliet to ask Milo to dance, but Juliet quickly insists that they are just friends. The old woman dances with Milo instead. Juliet sees a painting from a painter who never got the courage to confess his feelings to the person he loved. Milo asks Juliet's advice about getting a corsage for his date, a girl he does not really like but who asked him a few days ago. Juliet realizes she never even considered that it might be too late. She admits that she likes Milo, but Milo says he cannot return her feelings. Juliet leaves the date but feels triumphant that she is not like the painter.