Adapted from his 2020 National Book Award-winning best-selling novel of the same name, Willis Wu thinks he is just an ordinary Asian. Every day, he leaves his small room in Chinatown and walks into the Golden Palace restaurant - where a movie is being filmed.A police drama called Black and White, in which he plays a background actor.But Wu dreams of becoming a Kung Fu Master, the ultimate wish he could imagine for a Chinatown resident.When he unintentionally becomes a witness to a crime, Wu gradually unravels Chinatown's criminal web and in the process discovers what it's like to be in the spotlight.