Valerie Nguyen (Kelly Marie Tran) is a motivational self-help speaker with several successful books under her belt and about to embark on a speaking tour in Asia-pacific. This could catapult "the Queen of good habits" career to the next level.
Val has an affluent lifestyle and loving husband Robbie (Miles Robbins) and the pair are trying for a baby. Things couldn't be better: a world away from her working class Vietnamese immigrant childhood.
She just needs to get her birth certificate for the visa, something her estranged father may still have in a box somewhere. It's approaching the anniversary of Val's mother's death and she'd rather avoid speaking to him. Also she's developed an irritating persistent itch on the back of her head. Robbie says to visit the doctor but she's simply got no time for that.
No good will come of this.
CW: body horror, mutilation, bugs