What if the people who shaped you are the ones holding you back?

Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian have been told their entire lives that success follows a simple checklist. They studied hard, got top grades, and attended a good university - only to graduate into the Great Recession of 2008. With freshly minted degrees and no jobs in sight, they're stuck in their childhood bedrooms, weighed down by familial expectations.

So when Grace - once the neighbourhood golden child, now a Harvard Law School dropout - asks to make a documentary about the group, they say yes. It's not like her little movie will ever see the light of day. But then the video, "Bad Asians" goes viral on an up-and-coming media platform (YouTube, anyone?), catapulting them, or rather their cruel caricatures, to sudden internet fame. When a desperate attempt at spin control backfires, the fallout threatens not just their futures, but the deep bonds tying them together.

Following an unforgettable group of friends through the new millennium, Bad Asians is an epic, big-hearted coming-of-age tale capturing a generation shaped by the rise of the internet and the myth of meritocracy.