Watching the smoke rise from the riots Eli (Justin Chon) and Kamilla (Simone Baker) share a personal moment in a scene from the film "GOOK"
"GOOK" follows Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers that run their late father’s shoe store in a predominantly African American community of Los Angeles.These two brothers strike up a unique and unlikely friendship with an 11-year-old African American girl, Kamila.
As Daniel dreams of becoming a recording artist and Eli struggles to keep the story afloat, racial tensions build to a breaking point in L.A. as the “infamous” L.A. Riots break out.
GOOK opens in Los Angeles August 18 and in NY and other cities on August 25.
