In reverse school ties plot mei Lin is a Indonesian student who comes to a Jewish boarding school but does not tell anyone that she's Asian no one in the school realizes that she's Asian despite the fact that she looks Asian when the school finds out that she actually is in fact Asian there are a lot of prejudice stereotypes that go around and mei lin is unable to find friends in her Jewish boarding school in the end mei Lin and her peers learns acceptance and are able to find that prejudiced goes beyond a first glance.