Awkwafina (actually Nora Lum) learns her beloved grandmother Shuzhen Zhao (her debut) in China is dying of cancer. The family have decided not to tell her, and she reluctantly joins in the charade on a trip home. The end credits tell us that the real woman who the story is based on is still going six years after her diagnosis, thus somewhat giving the game away if she ever sees it.
It's to share in the wedding of her uncle's son from Japan, thus also a reuniting of the whole family.
It certainly has its moments (a drunken wedding, celebrating the dead husband with cigarettes and food on his shrine) though also has a slight tendency to wander - perhaps needed trimming.
Changchun is indeed in the north of China, thus the food seems unfamiliar with its buns and meat pies, should anyone be remotely interested.
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