Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen travels from Los Angeles with her single mother to spend the summer in Last Chance, Minnesota, to help care for her ailing grandfather and work at the Golden Palace, the family’s Chinese restaurant. Maizy, who hasn’t seen her grandparents since age eight and experiences tension between them and her mother, gradually gets to know the restaurant’s quirky regulars, befriends a local boy named Logan, and learns the history of her great-great-grandfather Lucky, who immigrated from China in 1853. When Bud the Bear, a seven-foot wooden sculpture that has stood outside the restaurant for generations, is stolen and the restaurant becomes targeted with racist attacks, Maizy investigates the mystery while discovering her ancestors’ experiences with discrimination and connecting with descendants of Chinese immigrant “paper sons,” ultimately learning about her family’s resilience and the importance of community.