SYNOPSIS
A runaway girl stays in a love motel down the street from her house to avoid an escalating confrontation with her parents about her sexuality. During her one night stay, she must maintain her sanity while redefining her perception of reality with a hostile presence outside her door. Will she make it through the night?
DIRECTORS STATEMENT
It was a sunny afternoon in L.A. when Monica started talking about this one moment in her life when she ran away from home. I remembered her describing the scene, an intense fight with her mother about her sexuality and mental illness. The intense back and forth resulted in her finding refuge in a love motel down the street. I found it fascinating that of all places she would run to, it was a grimy dark motel close to her home. It was almost as if the Love Motel is a metaphor for her own mind, a haven and safe place where she would not only have to deal with her own trauma and mental illness but the impending assault from her Chinese mother.
When a mother’s old Chinese values collide with her daughters need for acceptance and love, who will pick up the pieces when the fight is over?