In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Keywords: 2000s , absent-father , asian-american , bay-area , brother-sister-relationship , california , coming-of-age , dysfunctional-family , first-crush , fremont , independent-film , male-friendship , mother-son-relationship , semi-autobiographical , sibling-relationship , skateboarding , slice-of-life , summer , teenager