THE ONE WHO STAYED

While grieving over a death, Mika takes his older cousin, Kekoa, to haunted spots around Oʻahu to prove the existence of the afterlife. They discover that each handles loss in exceptionally different ways.

Liane works diligently on her Japanese cucumber farm with only the help of her husband Boun, and her grandson Aiden, who she has raised since he was a small child due to the early separation of his parents. Aiden and Liane have grown close as they both work together to continue to save up enough money for Liane to eventually return to her homeland of Laos, where she can be closer to her children after 20 years.

An addict living on a farm with his first-generation Korean mother must choose between keeping a relationship with his family or continuing his addiction.