After a messy breakup and firing, Jessica Tran returns to Toronto to help with her family's nail salon. But when an ultra-glam chain salon opens across the street, followed by their landlord jacking up the rent, the Trans must do everything possible to save their family business.

SUNSHINE is a light-hearted story about gentrification in an immigrant community fighting for their livelihood against big corporations. I love that the story isn't too serious—with chaotic family vibes, friendship drama, and some good-old sabotage—yet still explores important issues about "white-washing" businesses traditionally run by Asian immigrants.

I do feel the white savior aspect is perhaps a bit too on the nose, and the racism tropes are a tad overwritten at this point among Asian immigrant literature