As the follow-up to "Saving Face", "The Half of It" is described a modern day Cyrano-meets-Pygmalion centered on a shy, introverted, Chinese-American, straight-A student who finds herself helping the school jock woo the girl they both secretly love. In the process, each teaches the other about the nature of love as they find a connection in the most unlikely of places. Edwin Chiu (Collin Chou) is struggling immigrant father of Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) who was a highly educated engineer whose promising career was derailed by his poor English skills when he moved to America. Now Edwin acts as station manager of the local train depot, a poorly paying job that lacks the upward mobility he once hoped it would provide.