A vibrant city of many colours still has many shadows. A young black professional, André Reed, has a series of chance encounters with the ethereally beautiful Catherine Lee.

André reaches out of his hard-driving, workaholic lifestyle to a woman radically different from himself yet somehow similar and just as strong.

Catherine, André learns, is food for his soul - she nurtures him, laughs with him, completes him.

But even in a city filled with many different kinds of people, the same old notions about race prevail.

Entwined in a knot of bigotry, Andre and Catherine must struggle for their sanity, and for each other. While André wrestles with a haunting and secret past, Catherine navigates the conflict between new-world love and old-world Chinese tradition.

When a violent crime committed by an Asian triad occurs, members in Catherine ́s neighbourhood - and the entire city - cry out for justice. And Catherine might just lose André - and her family - for good.