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A look at the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong.

Mercy and Margaret meet, on a party boat for the first time, leading to their intersecting life of tragedy.

Margaret grows obsessed with solving her son's disappearance, leading to a shady individual. Hilary's marriage crumbles behind her public facade. Mercy has an intense affair with a man who shares her trauma.

Confined spaces escalate physical and emotional tensions between characters. A revelation in Gus's case prompts Margaret and Clarke's mainland trip. Hilary's mother visits from Los Angeles as Mercy makes a shocking find.

On one stormy Sunday in Hong Kong, two Filipina domestic workers cross paths with locals as a typhoon and political protests converge.

Margaret and her family prepare to return to the United States. Hilary travels home to Los Angeles to visit her ailing father. Mercy's mother visits her in Hong Kong for the first time.

Margaret throws a 50th birthday party for her husband in Hong Kong. It is revealed that she has lost a child, and one of the waitresses was involved.