The heart of Yang's film — his feature debut after co-creating the vibrant Netflix comedy series "Master of None" and Amazon's underrated marriage story show "Forever" — is the relationship between the adult Pin-Jui (played by the great Tzi Ma) and his grown daughter, Angela (Christine Ko). Or, to be more specific, the absence of a relationship. Their time together is marked by pained silence. What wounds Angela is not just the lack of conversation, but her father's willful impenetrability. "Maybe it's easier if we just stopped trying," she tells him.