Love Thy Neighbor

'Love Thy Neighbor' is the story about a young African-American boy, Ben, and a Korean woman, Jinsook, forming a friendship leading up to the 1992 L.A. riots. Ben, with no mother figure in his life, and Jinsook, missing her daughter, both fill their emptiness and form a friendship when Jinsook hires Ben as a helper in her liqueur store. All awhile, Ben's father is frustrated with the absence of his wife, Ben's mother, and disapproves of Ben's new found work as their lives lead up towards the trial verdict of Rodney King that triggers the L.A. riots.