Brandon Zang

In 2099, a teenager embarks on a trip across the Pacific Ocean to reunite the last two ginkgo trees. In the ancient Chinese village of Tianmushan, a jaded college grad has returned to take over as chief and preserve her father’s final legacy. With each day that brings them closer, relationships rekindle and bridges are burned. As the prospect of saving the ginkgo tree becomes less and less plausible, both must decide if their earnest (or futile) attempt is a worthwhile endeavor...against the inevitable end of the world.

After 15-year-old Benji does a deep dive into method acting to prepare for his role as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Benji's reality begins to blend in with the hazy woods from Shakespeare's play. Things start to go wrong when he runs into an unfamiliar character: the Chinese creator goddess Nüwa. Does Nüwa hold the key to the birthplace of Benji, a transracial adoptee? Or will he never escape Fairyland?

Ah Wing, a genius kid inventor living in 1877 San Francisco Chinatown, has built a sentient automaton eagle and the whole world wants it for their own. Together with his ambitious older sister, they must figure out a way to protect their invention before it falls into the wrong hands. In a metropolis forged from steel, nothing is quite as it seems.

Eve does math and Adam writes stories. In the Garden of Eden, the two lovers are imprisoned by their creators for six thousand years to solve one question:

What is reality?

October 24: Hulda gets on an elevator. She is a stockbroker.
October 24: The day the market crashed. The first day of the Great Depression.
October 24: 11 stockbrokers throw themselves off buildings. Or did they?

It's October 24, 1929. Hulda gets off the elevator.