Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland-Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance-even though it means leaving home. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.