Lulu Wang

Margaret and her family prepare to return to the United States. Hilary travels home to Los Angeles to visit her ailing father. Mercy’s mother visits her in Hong Kong for the first time.

CENTRAL, the feature-length penultimate episode of limited series EXPATS, shifts the narrative away from the entangled lives of expats to spend one fateful Sunday with two Filipina domestic workers and a disparate ensemble of Hong Kong locals as a massive typhoon descends upon the city and the 2014 political movement reaches a point of no return.

Our characters find themselves trapped in confined spaces where both physical and emotional tensions escalate. A potential revelation in Gus’s case sends Margaret and Clarke to the Mainland. Hilary’s mother visits from Los Angeles. Mercy makes a shocking discovery.

Margaret becomes obsessed with discovering the truth behind her son’s disappearance, leading her to a person of interest. Hilary tries to keep up appearances while her marriage is falling apart. Mercy is caught up in an intense affair with a man whose trauma mirrors hers.

One year earlier, Margaret and Mercy meet at an extravagant yacht party forging an unlikely connection, as Hilary wrestles with whether she wants to start a family. An incident occurs that will forever change the course of all our characters’ lives.

Three expat women living in Hong Kong cross paths at a birthday party where it becomes evident they share a mysterious connection from their past.