She plans to abandon her program and relocate to Ohio, where her colleague and boyfriend Lyle, whom she expects to divorce with his current wife, has been offered a post.

Her mother dies unexpectedly, and Sarah inherits her house and a Christian bookstore named King of Glory in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, which she decides to sell.

Mensah began writing the screenplay in 2012,[3] after showing her script of "a lavish $100 million biopic" set in 1940s Ghana to a filmmaker friend and being told that, in order to get it made, she needed to make a smaller film first.

[5] The archival footage of Ghanaian gatherings interspersed throughout the film was curated by Rita Mawuena Benissan, an archivist Mensah connected with on Instagram.

[14] Nick Schager of Variety wrote, "Mensah evokes the intricate ties that bind immigrants to their heritages, and the way those connections can both aid and hinder personal growth and progress.

[17] Lisa Kennedy of The New York Times wrote, "Mensah traverses the polyglot turf well, infusing details with astute affection and understated laughs".

[18] Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote, "Mensah looks in loving yet critical detail at the milieu in which she herself was raised and, working with the cinematographer Cybel Martin, realizes a distinctive style that's as memorable as the drama".