Raffi Tang (Francoise Yip) is living a quiet life in Mexico far from the mother who disowned her. The two fought years prior when Raffi declared her love for another woman, and they haven’t spoken since. Her mother has recently taken to writing her daughter, but the letters remain unopened. Raffi gets a call from a friend late one night that her mom’s house back in San Francisco was just on the news, and when she calls the local authorities she discovers why. Her mother has been killed in what appears to be a botched robbery. Raffi heads back home for the first time in years, but while she plans to only stay through her mom’s funeral she discovers there may be more to the case than previously thought. Why is the police investigation being run by amateurs committing multiple mistakes? Could her mother’s expensive and long-running lawsuit against her father (Kenneth Tsang) be a motivating factor here? Could her father actually be involved? Can Yip possibly still look as fantastic as she did in her American debut sixteen years ago with Rumble In the Bronx?

So far as SXSW we’ve got to watch some incredible films, a few crappy ones, and we’ve gotten to speak with some talented filmmakers about the process behind their projects. This would certainly be one of the incredible ones.

As you know, we are here in Austin covering the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. And as part of that, we thought it appropriate to bring you up to speed on which movies were bringing home some hardware at last night’s SXSW Film Awards ceremony.