Cafe Burma

In the midst of the Washington DC government district, sits the Cafe Burma, run by a 40-ish man and his 18-year-old daughter, Dewi. Dewi grew up as an American teenager but was also schooled in traditional Burmese values of maintaining the family’s honor and obedience to your elders. She yearns to escape the long hours working in the family business to learn a trade at college and raise a family of her own in America. Her boyfriend is reluctant to leave the old neighborhood, yet if she stay...