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A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Rahma, a woman who is agitated because she has to leave her female lover Dewi to marry at the demands of her parents.

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

A coming-of-age story rooted in an electric subculture, SOUL deals with the loss felt by Mia's loved ones when she leaves her small hometown to study in the city. Brought together by their love of the Northern Soul scene, loss becomes acceptance, and hope as Mia begins a new chapter.