Talented chef Vicky Ha, also known as 'The Dumpling Queen', is opening a restaurant centered around her mother's dumpling recipes, but first she must reconnect with her Chinese heritage to make the business a true success.
Adopted from a Romanian orphanage at the age of three, 27-year-old Daniela Brown prepares for an emotionally traumatic return to a country she knows little about, and she is on a mission to give back to other young orphans like herself.
Kuwaiti-Kiwi Ghadair (Dee) Alshemari dreams of seeing the catwalks of Paris and London but will her Muslim culture stand in the way of her desire to have the ultimate Kiwi experience of traveling to Europe?
Samoan/Tokelauan-Kiwi Taofia Pelesasa presents a controversial play to his Tokelauan community that undermines everything the community believes in by envisioning a future where their island homeland is lost to climate change forever.
Second-generation Kiwi-Chinese photographer Megan Blackwell has never been to China and does not speak the language, so she sets out to discover what it really means to be Chinese.
20-year-old Colombian refugee Daniel Salazar seeks to reconnect with the local Colombian community in Wellington, New Zealand that ostracized him by throwing an impressive Colombian barbecue.
21-year-old Zimbabwean-Kiwi Makanaka (Maka) Tuwe is on a mission to radically change New Zealanders' perceptions of Africans by organizing young African Kiwis to spread a positive image throughout the media.
30-year-old Xi Yao Chen travels back to his home country of China to seek the approval of his parents, who are highly accomplished traditional Chinese musicians themselves, to pursue a career around his passion for heavy metal.
22-year-old Filipino-Kiwi chef William Mordido challenges the Filipino community when he attempts to modernize their traditional cuisine and turn it into a modern fine dining degustation.