"Across Seas, Tortilla" is for anyone who's ever had to prove their relationship to a government, navigate immigration paperwork, or spend two years loving someone 8,000 kilometres away. As a Taiwanese-Canadian writer and her Spanish fiancé make a tortilla together, they also revisit the long-distance chapter that almost broke them: the Hollywood strike, the lost visa, the Kafkaesque immigration system, and the unexpected colonial history connecting their two homelands.