美籍华人丽贝卡觉得自己实现了美国梦 。但是她四十生日全家被中国政府隔离，回到美国后被卷进一场持续多年的官司，最终在加州硅谷法庭审判。原告是一个苹果公司高级雇员，声称她自己孕期血糖高需要被告丽贝卡陪尝。 住东海岸千里远的丽贝卡怎么牵扯上的？一个有名牌大学博士学位但消失得无影无踪的男人是她跟原告越南裔家庭的唯一连系。这个卡夫卡式的审判让丽贝卡回想她在中国的生长然后在美国生存奋斗的旅程。当她期待陪审团裁决的同时，她在审议财富带来的矛盾，把美国和中国的价值观和司法系统形成鲜明的对比。
With a suburban life and worldly experience, Rebecca had lived in the proverbial American Dream, only to have a rude awakening on her fortieth birthday when she received an unexpected call from the Chinese authorities on the Great Wall. Upon her return home in the U.S., she was thrown into a convoluted lawsuit that lasted years, culminating in a weeks-long jury trial in a Silicon Valley courtroom. Her trial was contemporaneous with a billion-dollar multinational corporate trial across town in San Jose, California and a politically scandalous murder trial in her once-sleepy college town in China; Her adversary was a woman who appeared to have it all, even high blood sugar. Her only connection to the plaintiff was a gifted Vietnamese American with degrees from elite universities who had vanished. The Kafkaesque trial spurred Rebecca to make a reckoning of her life, split between China and America. As she awaited the verdict, she deliberated over the paradox of wealth, class and privilege.
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