Once Lee's mother arrives, Curt finds himself struggling with writer's block. Because Mrs. Gui doesn't speak to him (but whether it's because she can't or won't, he doesn't know), he feels like an outsider in his own home when Lee and his mother converse in Cantonese and leave him out of the conversation, and even his sex life suffers with Lee's mother in the bedroom next to theirs.
Can Curt and Mrs. Gui move past their cultural differences to see that they both love Lee and have his best interests at heart?