The bride test

Khai Diep has autism and believes he is incapable of having "big" feelings such as love or grief. Rather than attribute this loss of emotion to the autism, he instead considers himself defective and shuts himself off to romantic relationships. His mother then travels back to Vietnam to find him a mail-order bride. She meets Esme Tran, a mixed-race girl who thinks marrying an American man might be the only way to help her family. But as she attempts to teach Khai about the lessons of how to feel love, she feels her own feelings for the man growing, finally realizing that she's in love with a man who can't reciprocate. Khai, for his part, must learn how to unlock his inner emotion or else run the risk of losing Esme forever.