Your house will pay

In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, los angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. but grace park and shawn matthews have their own problems. grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the valley with her korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. she's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond grace's understanding. shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. he just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in palmdale. grace park and shawn mathews share a city - los angeles - but seemingly little else. coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. but something in their past links these two families. as the city around them threatens to erupt into violence, echoing the worst days of the early 1990s, the lives of grace and shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever.