When her parents announce plans to see family in Missouri, a teenage girl from the suburbs of Chicago dreads the visit with her cousins, who called her an 'Oreo' the last time she saw them. When the girl arrives, what she finds surprises her.

Shortly before WWII, a young girl grows up on the grounds of a mental asylum where her father is Chief of Psychiatry. She experiences sexual assault at the hands of one of the patients who her father has become taken with.

Holly breaks up with a white boy over his casual anti-Asian racism--but when she falls for another white boy, she must decide whether or not to give him a chance.