The girl's mother, Junko, emigrated to the U.S. when she married an African American soldier from the south. Now, Junko's mother, Kazuko, who came to live with her daughter after Junko's divorce, lies near death.
Michiko is summoned home to San Francisco from her Los Angeles love pad leaving behind her Rastafarian musician boyfriend & a host of bad habits. Alone with her sick grandmother, Michiko is about to receive the most shocking news of her life while her sister April deals with her own devastating drama.
Told against the backdrop of the 1980's emerging hiphop scene, Watermelon Sushi
is a family love story.