"We're the Marvels" follows a young woman preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for a group of friends as a practice run before making actual Thanksgiving dinner for her family. As we see the prep, the dinner, and the aftermath, out of order, we start to see that she and her friends similarly struggle with feelings of over-reliance on others - a feeling that’s just waiting to burst.
An A-list K-pop star named Kwon visits an American production house to shoot his latest kimchi commercial. He's dead set on wearing dreadlocks for the video, but is met with strong opposition by the company's head of marketing, a woman named Adrienne, who is wary of the media's backlash. The two go head to head in a battle involving deception, bribery, theft, and viral videos, in an attempt to get their own way.
Following a road trip alongside the Mississippi River, everyday Americans are asked to talk about what’s on their minds right now - with their only prompt being to listen to what the person before them has shared.
