Donya is a former Afghan translator for the U.S. government, who now lives alone in Fremont, California, traveling across the Bay each morning for her job at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Fransisco. Struggling to connect with the culture and people in her new country, Donya falls into regular sessions with a therapist to process her complicated feelings about her past in Afghanistan. When Donya is promoted at work, she finds an opportunity to write her own story through a concise medium: the fortune messages inside each cookie. As Donya's world expands far beyond Fermont, she finds a connection with a quiet auto mechanic who is longing to expand his world as well. Tenderly crafted and lyrically shot in black-and-white, Babak Jalali's FREMONT is a wryly funny, moving, deadpan vision of the universal longing for home.