The death of the beloved family dog brings the Barnes siblings back to their parents' suburban home for the weekend to console their distraught mother. Louise, the youngest sibling, is struggling with the decision to step out of the clear path that has been drawn for her in order to find out what she really wants to do with her life, despite the fear that her mother will disapprove. Maris, the middle child, has made the secret decision to embark on single parenthood using a sperm donor, and now must find the right way and time to tell her family. Elijah, the eldest child, and his wife Irena are deep in the process of filing for the adoption of their first child, which is complicated by the fact that Elijah, as the only black member of his family, has some concerns about how best to start an interracial family of his own. Their parents, Brian and Holly, are having trouble keeping their marriage together, which is made more difficult by Holly's inability to cope with the loss of her dog.
Juan's first feature film, When We Grow Up, won the Hoosier Lens Best Feature Film award at Indy Fest and was featured on Polygon's 20 Best Films Born from the Asian Diaspora list: "...but where second-generation Filipina-American Zorinah Juan makes the film stand apart, is with her eye for cultural questions that may not be fully articulable." (Siddhant Adlakha, Polygon Film Critic). When We Grow Up has screened at the Asian American International Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival, as well as other notable festivals. Juan was an Artist-In-Residence at the Napa Valley Film Festival. Her short film, The Second Province, screened on the circuit in such cities as Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Honolulu. It was nominated for Best Short Film at The Downtown Urban Arts Film Festival. Zorinah’s travel series, Don't Be A Tourist, was nominated for best lifestyle/reality show at the International Television Festival. Four episodes are available on Amazon Prime through Dreaming In Red Films. In addition to her own projects, for over a decade, Juan has worked as a producer and script supervisor on many notable, award-winning independent films. Among her credits are “Beasts Of No Nation,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” "Tigertail," Lynne Ramsay’s, “You Were Never Really Here," and Silas Howard's, "A Kid Like Jake." When she is not working on set, Zorinah spends her time writing and cooking at her home in Brooklyn.
