Though she has achieved financial success and stability as a mergers and acquisitions associate, Grace still yearns for social acceptance among the Upper East Side elite.

When she is finally invited to her first high-end soiree, a Junior Committee meet-and-greet for a prestigious opera company, she is accidentally mistaken for an heiress from Hong Kong, also named Grace Tang.

Her efforts to correct the mistake lose some of their forcefulness when she is subsequently introduced to handsome Andrew James Barrington Jr. (Gale Harold), who is dating committee-member Kay Douglas (Stephanie March).

From a chance meeting in the street to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, the two begin to see more of each other, and Grace's personal, professional, and family interests become increasingly entangled and conflicting.

[5] After Wong's departure, Lee re-wrote and re-shot over 60 pages of the script, mentored by Jim Taylor, the Oscar winning writer of SIDEWAYS.

One Hollywood producer would allegedly only buy the script if Lee changed the heroine's ethnicity to Latino American (for a star like Jennifer Lopez).

[12] Lee released the film herself in cities outside New York and Los Angeles She began by four-walling at the Sundance Kabuki theater in San Francisco.

[citation needed] Michael Coppola, owner of the Fleur Cinema in Des Moines, Iowa, saw the film with his wife at the Camelview 5, Harkins Theatres in Scottsdale, Arizona.